[ExI] Whimsy or error?

[Stefano Vaj]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
> And I conjecture that this is what lies at the root of everyone's
> error who says "None are unaccounted for".

This is an absolutely implausible, just incorrect, phrase in Neolatin
languages (and in German, AFAICT). It sounds very strange to us also
the fact that in English you can use "they" as a pronoun, or a verb in
a plural form, for something grammatically singular such as "the
police". Grammatical number invariably trumps on real one.

Stefano Vaj