"I, Mudd" Question

[Juzam Djinn]

I am writing an essay on deixis--reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the (usually) extralinguistic context of the utterance. Personal pronouns like "I" and "you," for example, are deictic words--their meaning depends on who is speaking, and who is being spoken to.

I want to illustrate this with the scene from "I, Mudd" in which Spock says "I love you" to one Alice robot, and "But I hate you" to another.

Can anyone tell me:

1. What were the numbers of the Alice-robots to which he spoke?

2. What was the rest of the dialogue before the two Alice-robots froze up?

 

[A beaker full of death]

Juzam Djinn said:
and who is being spoken to.

whom.

(Not to be a dick, but given the context...)

 

[Juzam Djinn]

^Actually, you are just being a dick. I never claimed to be a master grammarian--only to be writing an essay on linguistics. So, if you've got nothing useful to contribute, you can go away , and troll somebody else--"Beaker".

 

[A beaker full of death]

And the ironies continue to accumulate. You might want to find another field to study, seeing as how the language we've all agreed upon is far too challenging for you. But you go right on ahead lashing out at people who try to help you. That will get you far.

 

[Mallory]

Enough guys. The personal stuff isn't necessary.

 

[Juzam Djinn]

Mallory said:
Enough guys. The personal stuff isn't necessary.

You might as well lock this. I've decided not to use that example after all.

 

[Mallory]

Fair enough. Good luck with essay anyway.