Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 21, 2002, 11:14 |
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:38, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> Maik Karapsik sekalge:
> <snip plural stuff>
>
> You're defining things too tightly, I think. "Many" and "few" often vary
> greatly between cultures and individuals. I might use "few" with fifty
> people if I frequently encounter several hundred people at once, or three
> as "many" if I rarely encounter more than one.
My vala lakha tends to use |tu'awa| - "hand", as the numerator for
intermediate numbers of people. By some strange coincidence, |tu'awa| is
"five".
Wesley Parish
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> Other than that, go for it. However, I wouldn't count on multiple plurals
> lasting long.
>
> Laimes,
> Wright.
--
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You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."