[blml] he, he/she, or they for whom the bell tolls

[Nakatani Tadayoshi]

Hi,

Steve Willner wrote:
> But how in the world does the language work without singular and 
> plural?!  Are there other languages like that?  (I admit I'm showing my 
> lack of education here!)  You may have to use a lot of "one or more" in 
> the translation unless not specifying a number implies that.

In Japanese (in principle), you put one, two, or three etc. (we have 
extensive different expressions depending on the subject, that is, 
whether a word shows person, animal, plant, desk, notebook and so on) 
just in front of a word, but each word has only one form, it dose not 
change whether it is singular or plural.
I hope you get some idea about singular and plural in Japanese. Bob 
Geller could explain this in more clear English, I am sure.

Nakatani Tadayoshi