Re: Losing languages ...

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> > That's because the first clause narrows the
> > scope of "candidates" for the
> > second clause.  AFAICT, "both" *always* means
> > "all two"; you can't say
> > "*I saw both of the three candidates."
>
> Fair enough.  But I might say "The candidates
> are here, and I've interviewed
> the both of them.", but I would only do that if
> the fact that there were only
> two candidates were established.   Otherwise
> I'd leave out "the" before "both".
?? If you interviewed (the) both of them, then
there's only two. I don't see what the difference
is. If there's more than two candidates, you'd
have to interview two of them.

Padraic.



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