<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My understanding is that "few" emphasizes the paucity of what there are, while "a few" <span>emphasizes t</span>he fact that, hey, at least there are some.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Consider the following cloze sentences: Which would you put in the first sentence and which would you put in the second sentence?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">1. Mrs. Spiegzweiler was disappointed that {few, a few} of the students had cheated.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">2. Mrs. Spiegzweiler was disappointed that {few, a few} of the students had passed the test.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If you're a native English speaker, you put "a few" in the first sentence and "few" in the second.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In Spanish, however, they're both *pocos*.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">How would those two sentences be rendered in tlhIngan Hol?<br></div></div></body></html>