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Re:Why is zero plural? (2024) by Xmd5a on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:48AM (#42793372)
And "rien" (nothing) used to mean something (via latin "res")
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Re:Why is zero plural? (2024) by lloeki on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:48PM (#42795470)
"Un petit rien" => a small thing

Typically used in "les petits riens de la vie", meaning the small things in life that may be overlooked but constitute the true things that make it worth living.

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Re:Why is zero plural? (2024) by whycome on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:09PM (#42809915)
The cognitive origins of these must be interesting. Rooted in our understanding of existence?
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