Japanese plurals

[Mark Davis ☕️]

Mark


On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 4:01 PM Markus Scherer <markus.icu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:48 PM Mark Davis ☕️ <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:
>
>> That's not our principle for the plural categories. In many languages the
>> contents of 'one' are already exactly 1.
>>
>> If the language really *requires* a different message for "abc {0} def"
>> when {0} is "1" vs when {0} is "2", then we need two plural categories
>> where one of them contains 1 (at least) and the other contains 2 (at least).
>>
>
> Except that we have the =1 mechanism for this specific case.
>
> My point is, surely Chinese and French and lots of other languages have
> words and phrases specific to an exact singular, but I don't think we want
> to split plural keyword "one" for every language to turn it into a keyword
> equivalent of =1.
>
> markus
>
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