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Re: easy question

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

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• Subject: Re: easy question
• Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:18:26 -0500
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ja' Quvar:
> Is it better to say {loS mang} or {loS negh}?
> I prefer the first, because {negh} sounds like there are too many  
> soldiers
> as to count them.
> I just need to translate a sentence like "four soldiers helped us".

Do you want to imply four individiuals soldiers, or a group of four?   
That's the difference I see between them.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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