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Re: [txeqli] Number of places



On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:59:08AM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> What exactly was our rationale for limiting the number of places to three
> for predicates again?   I do think many log/loj preds have too many places,
> but in some cases four places seem natural, like for sel a fourth place for
> price.

That's odd - I considered that extraneous, and wanted to use a separate
predicate for "price".

But I suppose "to sell" does inherently include the price, especially
since in English we can include the price with just the preposition
"for".

Going to four places would require more pinvor that refer to places.
Perhaps we'd use be/ce/de instead of be/ge. The f-series could easily
include "fo".
-- 
Rob Speer