the most deictic sentence EVER
I had a dream: to craft the deicticest sentence EVER. Now that dream has been realized. Behold:
Thou o'er yonder, we settle this there tomorrow!
Thou - social deixis - conveys informality normally with speaker, however this is being used ironically as a sign of disrespect here.
o'er yonder - gestural deixis - one has to see where the speaker is pointing/looking to figure out which 'thou' he's calling otu
we - personal deixis - inclusive 1st person plural; both will be settling 'this'
settle - temporal deixis - the lack of past tense markers is a kind of deixis, ya heard.
this - discourse deixis - referring to a past discourse element (whatever it is that needs to be settled). INTERESTINGLY it is referring to something in the past, once again proving Cruse wrong.
there - spatial deixis - straight up, dawg
tomorrow - temporal deixis - sheeit
BONUS: if we can get psychological deixis in there, this will be the undisputed champion.
Comments
I was thinking about some Bible versus I know and most of them seem extremely deictic as well. I think its the old english style of speaking.
All the thou's and thy's and explanations. It would be interesting to view deixis in another language and compare them.