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Jorge Llambias scripsit:
> Whats {dvandva}? Did you mean {dvadva}?
Sorry. It's a Sanskrit term for a certain type of compound: "victory defeat"
for "a victory or defeat, as the case may be".
> Can we say that lo'e cinfo is present in West Africa, even
> if it doesn't live there? It seems to me that you're giving
> {lo'e} a statistical rather than generic meaning. Certainly in
> English we would say that the Lion lives in West Africa as well
> as living in Central Africa and in Southern Africa.
That's because "the Lion" in English is ambiguous between lo'e cinfo
and loi cinfo. Loi cinfo certainly lives in all those places.
> If lo'e cinfo lives in Central+Southern Africa and not in West
> Africa, doesn't lo'e remna live in Eurasia and not in Australia?
I don't think so, but I can't quite articulate why. There are fewer
people in Australia, but Australians are not *outliers*. Maybe the
lions in East and West Africa aren't either, though the lions in zoos
surely are.
The people who live in Antarctica are outliers: lo'e remna doesn't live there.
> The second ones says that humans with a penis are themselves
> nonretractible, which I suppose is true too. :)
Ooops....LOL.
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