1261: Clusivity May 24, 2018

English lacks a lot of the semantic variety that pronouns in Spanish have. To start, English has neither a distinction for formal pronouns nor second person plural, both of which are present in Spanish, but there are still many more facets which neither language have. Clusivity is a feature of language in which something can either be inclusive (of interlocutors, tense etc) or exclusive. For instance, 'we' is both inclusive and exclusive; it has the ability to include everyone—either literally each human, or just a speaker, addressee, and third person—or it can exclude the addressee, such as in "we like you" where 'we' does not include the listener. Other languages include this distinction, and will have three first-person pronouns, which may be wholly distinct pronouns, or sometimes will coincide with the informal and formal forms for the first person.
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