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Interests: Latin, TypeScript/JS, .Py/.rb, Education, Philosophy, Klein-Poodles. Engineering trainer @ Bloomberg LP. Opinions my own.

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pgcd, to linguistics
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@linguistics while (re)reading Pratchett I have developed the strong feeling that when one of the characters says "our Nellie" or "our Jason", the effect is similar to Northern Italian "la Agnese" o "il Gianni" - that is, a colloquialism when referring to a common acquaintance, not necessarily a family member.
Can somebody who speaks both confirm or deny this?

sgharms,
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@pgcd @linguistics Latin is the influential motivator? Winnie ille Pû (Winnie the Pooh) or Alexander Ille (Magnus). The ille seems to be an intensifier and a demonstrative? The implication here is that familiarity (and this mental “ownership”) can be assumed. That kind of ownership is reflected in English as possessive “our” makes sense.

https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/demonstrative-pronouns#:~:text=Ille%20is%20used%20of%20what,to%20mean%20“the%20following.”

todayonscreen, to histodons
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, September 2, in 1864, the city of Atlanta fell to Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, setting the stage for Sherman’s March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war (depicted in Gone With The Wind, 1939)

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A city on fire

sgharms,
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@todayonscreen @histodons SHERMAN!

A title card I could never forget.

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