#the point is to show counter proof against the predicative treatment of proper names via treating don and doña
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like you are not wrong, but jesus don't say it aloud
I'm reading this paper that treats the terms Don/Doña as spanish honorifics and
man, you are not wrong but god does that sound weird calling them that
#it's not even the point of the paper akfaksdjfkjf#the point is to show counter proof against the predicative treatment of proper names via treating don and doña#and the personal articles en/na in catalan#as pure expressives á la Pott aka they are triggers of conventional implicatures aka they operate in the not at issue content level#but like that's alright i can see the process behind the reasoning nothing too new here#NOW calling don/ doña HONORIFICS??? thats something that gets my attention
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