Re: Swedish Chinese

Pavel Iosad scripsit:

> > > _att_ and _och_ as [o] are surely something I've heard not once.
> >
> > Really? That rather surprises me, act'ly, esply the later.
>
> Oops. I meant, I really have heard them, and pretty frequently at that.
Interesting.  In English, "not one" unqualified is an emphatic way of
saying "none" (indeed "none" < "ne one"); in order to capture what you
meant, you must say "not (just) once but many times/often", or something
of the sort.  Are things otherwise in Russian?

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