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Re: The difficulties of being weirder than English

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Friday, May 28, 2004, 8:29
--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Garth Wallace wrote: > > > Peter Bleackley wrote: > > Or it could be based on semantics: things that > normally occur in pairs > > (like hands) would be assumed to be dual while > things that normally > > occur singly (like heads) would be assumed to be > singular, as long as > > the context didn't demand the other > interpretation. Hooray for ambiguity! > > > > > > Of course, the main difficulty comes when > translating the phrase 'two > heads are better than one'.
I wonder how it would feel to explain the doctor that "the right part of my pair-of-arms aches". (I said "arms" as an example). ===== Philippe Caquant "High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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