Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:27:51 +0000
From:  Duane Campbell <dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET>
Subject: Re: one as a pronoun?

At 10:08 AM 11/12/97 +0200, you wrote:
>As a foriegner (Russian-speaker) I can only add that the form is rather
>popular with us as it allows us to follow the patterns of our language. In
>Russian you can build sentences without subject in Passive.

I am told that in Russian two negatives do not make a positive. This was
recently related in the following story:

An English prof was explaining that in English two negatives make a
positive, but in Russian they do not. But in no language do two positives
every make a negative. To which one of the students replied, "Yeah. Right."

Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net
http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/