[Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals

[David Frank]

Fritz --

I don't know German, but I remember a German saying, something like "Man ist 
was man isst." (Please forgive and correct spelling mistakes.) Is this "man" 
unrelated to what you were talking about?

-- David Frank


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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 10:29 AM
Subject: RE: [Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals


Granting the availability of mensch as a gender-neutral term,
am I wrong in thinking that, in the indefinite usage, mann and
leute are a singular/plural pair? I'm thing of usages like:

Was mann sagt ...  "What a person/one says..."
Was leute sagen .. "What people say..." 



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