Ray Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines talks about porting individuals from traditional substrates (brains) to newer substrates (internet) and how this will change the sense of identity. If there wont be definite lines between "me"'s and "you"'s and "them"'s in this future, maybe "we" should have a language without pronouns.
If port person from brain to machine, Then need new language. Maybe trash pronouns.-- JesusHChrist, Feb 20 2005 Japanese. http://www.cic.sfu....Right/pronouns.htmlLanguage without pronouns. [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 20 2005] Machines Talk Pretty One Day-- ldischler, Feb 20 2005 Hai.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 20 2005 Sugoi!-- JesusHChrist, Feb 20 2005 Think must be on something. Of if not, probably ought to be :-)-- Basepair, Feb 20 2005 Wasabi!-- DesertFox, Feb 20 2005 's a little insect about half an inch long.-- Basepair, Feb 20 2005 "If port person from brain to machine, Then need new language. Maybe trash pronouns."
That's more than trashing pronouns. Maybe your new rule is "Never refer to individual persons, even by name," or maybe it's "Sentences do not have subjects, just predicates and objects."-- robinism, Feb 21 2005 random, halfbakery