Re: French negation

From: "mb" <azythos2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 Sep 2006 22:50:47 -0700

Nigel Greenwood wrote:

I wrote:

This phenomenon occurs in the 1923 song Yes, we have no bananas! The
curious English is attributed to a Greek greengrocer.

"Ναι, δεν έχουμε μπανάνες ..."

Just as unlikely in Gk speech as it is in English.

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