Re: Using numberless substantives

Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:
>
> this is true. Tagalog and other Philippine languages use a plural particle
> to make plurals. For instance, "mansanas" means apple (when i bring this
> up to Spanish speaking friends they can't believe that it just means apple
It's not a coincidence, I guess... Why do you think the -s is there?
Maybe the Spanish speakers often referred to apples in plural?


--Pablo Flores