Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 18, 2004, 23:42 |
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En réponse à Philippe Caquant :
>I'm afraid I can't agree, as I explained in another
>reply. Left/right and Yin/Yang don't seem to be to be
>the same concept (in French: une paire / un couple).
They are. Just as you can define Yin without Yang, you can't define left
without right. They are undissociable, and opposite (just like top and
bottom, front and back, etc...). Whether the semantics add some sort of
complementarity doesn't change that as pairs they behave much the same way,
i.e. they are not definable one without the other.
Christophe Grandsire.
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