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Xmd5a 30 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is zero plural? (2024)

And "rien" (nothing) used to mean something (via latin "res")

lloeki 30 days ago | [–]

"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.

whycome 28 days ago | [–]

The cognitive origins of these must be interesting. Rooted in our understanding of existence?

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