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Lojbab to John: > > > So long as the cmavo are a closed set, every word amongst them will > > cover a > > > range of meaning and hence be to some degree polysemous > > > >Polysemy is more than covering a range of meanings: it is covering a > >*discontinuous* range of meanings, e.g. English "sound". _Ruka_ is > >monosemous even though it covers the domain of both "hand" and "arm" > > The question of whether meanings are continuous or not is difficult. Most > polysemy in natlangs comes from metaphorical extension that retains > continuity at the time it occurs, but the connection is lost or > forgotten. I don't think any of the gadri could easily become > discontinuous in meaning unless we defined a discontinuity We were talking about English gadri & the analysis thereof. --And.