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Re: [jboske] McCawley on existential import



In a message dated 10/4/2002 10:40:40 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hidden.email writes:

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If I was forced to accept your saying so, definitely.
But I can't see them as useless and screwed up just based
on your word that they are useless and screwed up.

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Yet again: they are rarely used and when needed can be perfectly mimiced using the importing sort (useless).  If they are taken as basic, it is impossible to get the importing sort in, even though those are the ones we generally need (screwed up).

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>But, to the point, once you have
>them, it is virtually impossible to get importing expressions, which
>presumably -- since they cover 99+% of the cases, you do want.

Non-importing expressions cover 100% of the cases, so I don't
need the importing one. Also, it is just as easy to get importing
from non-importing as the other way: