Re: Edict example sentences.

B. Ito wrote:
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> "Bart Mathias" <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> [...]
>> But I'm not sure that "every person without [...] exception" quite
>> covers 「こぞって」. For example, it's probably fairly safe to say
>> everyone without exception has, at some time in their life, shivered, be
>> it with fear or cold or whatever. Is that what 人間はこぞって震えたこと
>> がある would mean?
>>
>> Bart
>
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> Maybe, I should have put one extra word "there" like "every person *there*
> without (an) exception" only to cover the specific group of people.

Meanwhile, I think that what the 「もろびとこぞりて」 example you
provided is supposed to translate should mean "everyone there and
everywhere, then and forever."

Kotobas is hard.

Bart
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