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

Or is true of different bunches of cats or in different ways.  I wait for a reason to deal with either of these other concepts.

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On Sep 15, 2012, at 9:16 PM, John Cowan <cowan@hidden.email> wrote:

 

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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