Re: "Each Other"
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 22, 2004, 3:35 |
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:03:36PM -0500, Rob Haden wrote:
> Hey,
>
> How do different languages (natural and artificial) handle the English
> expression "each other"? It seems to me that it's very idiomatic.
Spanish (and presumably the other Romance languages) use the reflexive
pronoun for this, so "they see each other" is literally rendered as
"they see themselves"; the combination reflexive + plural is understood
to mean "each sees the other" rather than "each sees him/herself".
-Mark
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