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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by schoen on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @04:59PM (#10119413)
It would probably be most accurate to say that it's an extra person.

Verbs can be inflected in various languages for gender, number, person [which can include degrees of formality, respect, or social distance], voice, mood, tense, aspect, ergativity [an alternative to voice], evidentiality [how the speaker knows that the thing happened], and other things I'm probably forgetting.

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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by foldr on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:01PM (#10119737)
Yes, I know. As far as I know, Mexican Spanish has all the same tenses as European Spanish but lacks a second person familiar plural, and hence the associated form of the verb in each tense.
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