Le 25-janv.-07, à 16:48, John Mikes a écrit :
> Bruno, > as another chap with learned English "in vertical stance" I > "partially" agree with your 'plural' as would all English > mother-tongued people, but I also consider the gramatically probably > inproper "points of views", since WE allow different 'views' in our > considerations. Stathis may choose his preference<G>. > "Points of view" assumes THE one view we allow. "MATTER OF FACTlLY" > (plural: 'matters-of factly'? - if it really HAS a plural. Is there > an English "singulare tantum"? ) I still speculate what "point of > views" may refer to, however I would volunteer a "point-of-views" in > the conventional sense. > Alas, no 'utmost' authority OVER the hundreds of live English > versions. OK thanks. I think I will follow mostly Stathis' suggestion, but you just put the finger on why I have a problem. Sometimes I want to talk on many first (say) person pointS of view. But sometimes I want to speak about all person (first, third, singular, plural) pointS of ViewS. So indeed there is a little nuance depending on the number of points and views :-) (Note all this is a bit useless because there are few correlation between what I think and write especially when in hurry) Another solution which I have apparently already used consists in saying "hypostase" in the place of person point of view ... Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
