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Re: [txeqli] majority



on 3/30/02 1:00 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote:

> Rex May - Baloo wrote:
>> 
>> Come to think of it, zweydalvo could mean 'majority'
> 
> I like that a lot more than the one with "tayl". And "zweyfyuvo" for
> "minority", I presume.

Yes.  We'll have 'that which is most numerous' and 'that which is least
numerous'  For more intricate meanings of 'minority'and 'majority' we might
have other words.  Like the 'over fifty percent' thing I was trying to
cobble together.

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