kind of getting into the idea that it'd be kind of neat to make a conlang and oh no is this going to be my next obsession
i mean I already did do that thing about the interesting grammar of the Akʔana language with its weird person system
@Felthry what's that then?
long, akʔana grammar
@yaodema so, akʔana are a weird hybrid of individuals and hiveminds (called families), and there are multiple first-person constructions to mean "I as in the single individual", "I as in the family as a whole", "I as in another individual in the same family", and then in the plural it gets more complex with versions of "we" that mean everything from "this entire family and the entire family i'm talking to and possibly others" to "not this specific individual but a collection of individuals in the same family" to "this specific individual, several others from the same family, and some others from other families but not the family that is being spoken to"; naturally this much variation tends to simplify over time and I've not worked out exactly how yet but some of those forms merge into one
long, akʔana grammar
@Felthry ah. This kinda reminds me of a thing with a species & language / speech style I thought up, but can't get to yet. Mantid-like extraterrestrials with a four-part brain that are conscious of each of their interior selves, having three first-person singular pronouns (I, I-also, I-as-well; the second is also used when a fourth speaks in turn) and two first-person plural pronouns (we, we-all).