[lit-ideas] Re: Il Y A Personne
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:25:15 EDT
In a message dated 6/8/2009 8:47:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
palma@xxxxxxxx writes:
il y a personne
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But that means, "There is somebody" -- not there is one person.
Or, 'there is person'.
It strike me that the French use 'person' as a mass-noun, as Americans use
'sugar'. ("Much sugar").
JLS
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