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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

about the usage of people

0I'd be happy if someone would answer my question. Thanks in advance.02br
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00A: I went out into the world at the age of 18, and people were kind to me. 02br
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00B: People tend to be more comfortable with people of their own age.02br
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00In A, "people" mean human beings at large, but it doesn't include the speaker nor the listener.02br
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00On the other hand, in B "people" mean human beings at large, and it includes the speaker and the listener.02br
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00 Does "people" have such 2 types when it's used in general contexts?0-
  

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0I don't really see the meaning or even the usage of the word 'people' as being different in the two sentences. In both cases it means 'people in general'. 0-

— Yankee

  • 0I don't really see the meaning or even the usage of the word 'people' as being different in the two sentences.
  • In both cases it means 'people in general'.
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0I don't really see the meaning or even the usage of the word 'people' as being different in the two sentences. In both cases it means 'people in general'. In sentence A, there is nothing that indicates that the speaker is definitely excluding the listener.0-
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0 The same word 01i00people02i00 is used whether you're talking about specific people (the people you encountered who were kind to you -- in A) or about people in general (as in B).02br
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00 Other than that, I don't know what you mean by "two types". An English speaker does not think of these as two different types even if, perhaps, other langu
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