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Invent Yourself scripsit: > If counting is not desired, lo is just as good, signifying a quantity of > one piece. Do you want a gadri to mark that counting isn't necessary? I > don't see that distinction as worth marking, not when we have a chance to > solidify the meaning of the mass-gadri, on the way to resolving lo'e. This > is a fairly important issue, and it seems that non-countability is a > relatively minor trait that either never matters, or can be sent to the > selbri in those rare cases that it does matter. "Mass" entails non-countability, and serves as a convenient marker for it. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)