[lit-ideas] Re: Il Y A Personne

  • From: palma <palma@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:24:58 -0400 (EDT)

you simply do not know what you're talking about to put it kindly
il y a personne translates (the English) there's nobody

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:

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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