Military industrial complex lays Pommy lexicographer low

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:45 PM -0400 5/1/01, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>This here, that-there, that-yonder.
>
>Three way distinction?
>
Why not yon-yonder, for consistency?  I seem to recall that when I
was studying intro Swahili we translated the three-way distinction in
that language by "this"/"that"/"yon" and "here"/"there"/"yonder", but
with the consciousness that this isn't modern English we're talking
about.  To my mind, it's a lot like glossing Fr. "tu" or Ger. "du" as
'thou'.

larry