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John:
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > * Usage overwhelmingly supports it; pretty much all prior usage
> > of so'V would be invalidated
>
> The first clause may be true, but the second is surely false. Nothing
> prevents "so'a" from meaning "all but an insignificant number" in
> particular cases. I only object to drawing rigorous conclusions that
> this relationship always holds
so'a is the one member of the series whose meaning is the same in
both stories. But it and so'o are the least used, I think.
> > * We would need to find other ways to say "many/a few/most"
>
> "Most" in particular is known to be intractable
Something like "more than (one in two)". But it warrants a word in
its own right.
> > chosen. Why wasn't {so'u} "almost none", and {so'i} "a middling
> > number" or "about half", or suchlike?
>
> *shrug*
>
> I wrote it up the way the Bobster told me to. I am not responsible for his
> choice of Logflash keywords
Aye, I wasn't pointing the finger of blame, but I did mean to suggest
that it's hard to believe that the story was ever only as you tell it,
else such misleading keywords would not have been chosen.
--And.