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From: ygor_coelho@hotmail.com (Ygor Coelho)
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Subject: Re: Ways the languages have to say 'nobody'
Date: 13 Jul 2003 06:40:11 -0700
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Thanks all of you who answered to my question! :)
I could notice that the languages (natlangs or conalgns) you gave me
as examples take a different way to form those words, but on the whole
the idea is always the same: including an affix or something like that
before a word. I don't remind any language who have another way. :)
By the way, I noticed Portuguese, my native language, have an
interesting way to say words like 'everybody' and 'everything'. We use
'todo'/'toda' before a noun, but we also use it alone in the phrase
when we want to say 'everybody'. However, if we mean objects, we use
'tudo'. It's also interesting that at least in Brazilian Portuguese
the form 'todo o mundo' substituted the form 'todos' in the colloquial
with French. Can someone tell me if it's true?
Ygor Coelho
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