Re: Nullar (Was: Re: Noun Number)
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 8:37 |
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On Tuesday 06 November 2001 03:50, Padraic Brown wrote:
> Makes sense. "Many" is simply the countless things that are there;
> "zero" is the countless things that aren't there; and "one" is the
> one thing that is here.
Now I see why many languages (Ilaini for one) insists plural verb
forms when talking about "nothing" or "nobody".
Irina
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