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Re: [engelang] Xorban: Semantics of "l-" (and "s-" and "r-")



Martin Bays scripsit:

> Can you give me an example of a predicate which would hold of the
> massification of all cats (say) but not of the myopic singularisation?

"weighs many, many tons" is true of the massification, not of the m.s.;
the converse is true for "weighs a few kilograms."

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