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Re: New Address Book in Jaguar 10.2...


  • Subject: Re: New Address Book in Jaguar 10.2...
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 01:54:36 -0700

On 8/25/02 1:38 AM, "Cornwall" <email@hidden> wrote:

> At 1:02 AM -0700 8/25/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>> On 8/21/02 7:21 AM, I wrote:
>
>> And you've got to hand it to them: the AppleScript plural for
>> 'person' is 'people'. First creative use I've seen of the plural form.
>> "English-like" is still alive - I think even Cal would like that.
>
> Three people, two people, one people(?).

Pardon? It's 'a person'. And even in English, it's almost proper to say:

count people
get result
--> 1
>
> Depends on your definition of English. ;-)

No, actually it doesn't. It depends on your definition of "Engish-like",
which is - shall we say - a flexible concept?


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Paul Berkowitz
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