Any

From: Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 07:38:37 -0700
Subject: Any
To: Peter Cyrus <pcyrus@hidden.email>, Alexander Browne <alexbrowne@hidden.email>, "Stephen L. Rice" <srice@hidden.email>, Gareth Wilson <grw45@hidden.email>, Mike Wright <darwin@hidden.email>, Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@hidden.email>, txeqli group <ceqli@yahoogroups.com>

I've been thinking about 'any'.  The point that in English it has a useful
meaning, as in "Which book do you want?"  "Any."  And the usage in "I don't
have any."  which is different.

Zi vol kwasa hon?  Which book do you want.
Go vol kulsa hon.   I want all the books.
Go vol han to hon.  I want one of the books.
This last can be taken to mean that I want any one of the books, right?
If I want a specific book, I'd specify which.

I'm confusing myself.  How does Mandarin handle 'any'?
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