Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 16, 2004, 5:59 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> just as "book" in
> Japanese still uses the "long thin" classifier even though Japanese
> books are now normally codices rather than scrolls.
Actually it's the other way around. :-) _Hon_ "book" is used as the
classifier for "long thin objects" (among other meanings). Book itself
uses a different classifier, _satsu_
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