Sunday, August 8, 2010

A Sum Greater Than Its Parts

Note that both English and Russian depart grammatically from their conventional forms of pluralizing nouns when it comes to human beings/ people.

English: Person -- People  (as opposed to Persons).

Russian: человек -- люли (as opposed to человекы)

I would suggest it stems from a subconscious recognition as to the transformative nature of an individual's integration in to a ציבור / collective.

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