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From: dick@cs.vu.nl (Dick Grune)
Subject: Re: Pas encore?
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jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au (Jacques Guy) writes:

>rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen) writes:

>>Does French "pas encore" mean "not yet" or "not anymore"? 

>"not yet". Never "not anymore".

>>what is "no longer, not
>>any more" in French then, as "non plus" is the opposite of "too".

For what it is worth, Hebrew has a simple straightforward approach to this:

  'Ani `od  lo' ro'e 'oto = I yet     not see him = I don't see him yet
  'Ani kvar lo' ro'e 'oto = I already not see him = I don't see him any more
       ^^^^                   ^^^^^^^
That latter is logical:  It is already the situation that I do not see him =
I don't see him any more.

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