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   Kerr-Mudd, John to Bertel Lund Hansen   
   Re: French uses "ne" in contexts where E   
   01 Jun 24 19:32:21   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 15:51:16 +0200   
   Bertel Lund Hansen  wrote:   
      
   > Ulf_Kutzner wrote:   
   >   
   > >> A week or so ago I went to see a French film (The Taste of Things), and   
   > >> was struck by the fact that formal pronouns were used by everyone --   
   > >> even between man and wife.   
   >   
   > In English there is nothing but the formal pronoun.   
      
   Quite so, squire.   
      
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