Re: pro-anything

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 22/04/99 02:19:36  , vous avez =E9crit :

<< I just realised "one" is a pronoun (though not like the others)
 AND it can be modified. In Spanish there's not such thing as
 "one", probably because it's not needed (as above). >>

I think it's because "one" is at the same time a pronoun and the noun=20
specialized in deriving verbs and adjectives into nouns of attributees.=20
Adjectives in Romance languages are used as nouns : "el rojo", "le rouge" (a=
s=20
"the red one", not "the red color"), whereas in English you need "one" as a=20
specialized noun to make such noun (except for specific use such as "the=20
blacks and the whites").=20

Mathias