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MorphemeAddict: > "Bavasu" refers explicitly to people as human animals and means 'humanity', > not just 'people'.. It is less appropriate than "resu", although it's not > very different in meaning. Well, on page 40 in 'Semantics Primes and Universals' it says "all languages appear to distinguish, in one way or another, between a more general notion of SOMEONE, or BEING (human or non-human), and a notion of PEOPLE (necessarily human)." (and you have the book to read the rest?) So I think it should be included. -- Veoler