Re: Do you want a French "little" or a Dutch "little"? :))

 --- Philip Newton wrote:

> That reminds me of a discussion we had with my Japanese teacher quite a
> while ago; she didn't see the difference between "vielleicht" and
> "wahrscheinlich" ("perhaps" and "probably"), since to her both were
> Japanese "tabun". So we had to explain with percentages (say, "perhaps"
> is 30% and "probably" 80%, or whatever -- in any event, I'd place them
> on opposite sides of the 50% mark).
That's odd! I would rather place "perhaps" in the middle of the scale, on the
50% mark, somewhere between "probably" and "probably not" (or should I say:
improbably?)

Jan

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