From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 13 12: 7:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD2537B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:07:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A1DAC6ACC7; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:37:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:37:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Mathew KANNER , Rahul Siddharthan , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indo-European Grammar (was: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008]) Message-ID: <20010214063735.N30961@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3A81DDC9.EF6D7D84@originative.co.uk> <3.0.6.32.20010207223155.009d42a0@mail85.pair.com> <20010208110159.E2429@lpt.ens.fr> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:46:24PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 13 February 2001 at 14:46:24 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey 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