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Sentence #398123

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 Swift Swift December 19, 2010 December 19, 2010 at 9:24:18 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

re @NNC: Is this a form of ebonics or something similar? From the translations, I would think this should be "I am", though on it's own it could be the second answer to the question: “What vowels are there used in English?”

Zifre Zifre December 19, 2010 December 19, 2010 at 9:32:52 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

If you change "is" to "am", it makes sense. Example:

A: These are the people who saw the explosion.
B: I am another. (one who saw the explosion)

Scott Scott December 20, 2010 December 20, 2010 at 2:04:10 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

It's a translation of a French quote. It doesn't have any concrete meaning. It just means that I (myself) is an other (someone else). I could change it to "I am an other" but that wouldn't be quite the same as the French sentence.

Swift Swift December 20, 2010 December 20, 2010 at 2:22:13 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

I'm a bit confused. It means that I am someone else? Isn't that an oxymoron? And even if so, wouldn't it be better expressed with something like “The self is the other”? It still seems ungrammatical to me...

Scott Scott December 20, 2010 December 20, 2010 at 2:25:54 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

You're right that it's ungrammatical, but that's also the case in French.

WillPlatt WillPlatt July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020 at 1:47:12 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

So is the French incorrect then? In which case the French needs to be fixed and the error ought not be carried over into translations.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #398122Je est un autre..

I is another.

added by Scott, June 2, 2010
➜ #398122Je est un autre.

linked by Scott, June 2, 2010
I is an other.

edited by Scott, June 2, 2010
I is another.

edited by Scott, June 2, 2010
➜ #398124自分は他人である。

linked by blay_paul, July 1, 2010
I is an other.

edited by Scott, December 20, 2010
➜ #675456mi drata

linked by Zifre, December 20, 2010
➜ #675456mi drata

unlinked by Zifre, December 20, 2010
➜ #675456mi drata

linked by Zifre, December 20, 2010
➜ #1216567Yo es otro.

linked by wallebot, November 4, 2011
➜ #2431485Mi estas iu alia.

linked by Amastan, July 16, 2013
➜ #2596619"Nekk" d amdan niḍen.

linked by Amastan, July 16, 2013
➜ #8240719Ben başka biriyim.

linked by deyta, October 8, 2019