Re: Adopting a plural
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 23:05 |
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On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:34:43 EDT, John Leland <Lelandconlang@...> wrote:
>In a message dated 10/4/04 7:45:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>jeffrey@HENNING.COM writes:
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><< It means 2+ and that's emphatic (of some importance in the discourse) >>
>That is roughly my understanding of the Japanese plural, though those more
>fluent in Japanese are entitled to correct me. (I had 2 years of Japanese
but it
>is very rusty now.)
>John Leland
Japanese does NOT have a plural form at all. Japanese nouns are neither
singular nor plural, strictly speaking. To count things, a number and a
"counting word" is used, according to what sort of items are counted.
--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton
official Choton homepage:
http://www.choton.org