Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:37:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Mathew KANNER <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indo-European Grammar (was: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008]) Message-ID: <20010214063735.N30961@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpwvauy9u7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:46:24PM %2B0100 References: <3A81DDC9.EF6D7D84@originative.co.uk> <3.0.6.32.20010207223155.009d42a0@mail85.pair.com> <20010208110159.E2429@lpt.ens.fr> <xzpzofxffa2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010208150641.A15166@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010208193726.04763b10@localhost> <20010209143121.J16260@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010209153743.D18596@cs.mcgill.ca> <20010210100926.P16260@wantadilla.lemis.com> <xzpwvauy9u7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Tuesday, 13 February 2001 at 14:46:24 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: >> On Friday, 9 February 2001 at 15:37:43 -0500, Mathew KANNER wrote: >>> Really? I have a vague memory of being taught that it was >>> used when the speaker is referring to a group of people, which he is a >>> member of -- no inference on the makeup of the group nor speaker can >>> be made, Much like "we" in English. >> You can use it like that as well, unlike "one" in English. > > Not grammatically correct, though very common in daily speech. Larousse lists it with the prefix "familièrement". Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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