[Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals

[Fritz Goerling]

  David,

  "Man" in the saying "Man isst was man isst" is only written in capitals
because it
  begins the sentence. Otherwise all nouns are capitalized in German.
However, the "Man"
  in the saying "Man isst was man isst" has nothing to do with "Mann" (=
man; the male)
  It corresponds to the impersonal "on" in  French and "one" in English. So
the translation
  of the German saying into English is "One eats what one eats" or in
gender-noninclusive
  language "Man eats what he eats."
  Fritz



  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


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: <billposer at alum.mit.edu>
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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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