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Re: [jboske] xoi'a

In a message dated 10/6/2002 8:06:03 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hidden.email writes:

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My criticism is that you are being
precise about something for which such precision does not make
sense. Unless you say how you measure obesity, talking of linear
increase as opposed to exponential increase doesn't say much.
The same situation can be described as a linear increase in
one variable and exponential in another variable. The weight
might grow linearly and the waist grow less than linearly, for
example. Is obesity proportional to the weight or to the waist?

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Yummy, two different quantities in an event (I'd say three, since most of my friends with obesity fears seem to go by butt size) being correlated to one quantity of an event.  And, I suppose, eventually one truth-value for a claim.

That aside, I am not sure what to think about these proposed dynamic tenses -- just as I don't feel comfortable with the already existing motion tenses for space.