Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Isn't that the wrong way round? At least for me, "space" in
> informal/non- technical speech is always volume, whereas in math I'm
> equally happy to speak of spaces of one, two or forty-nine dimensions
> as of three.
By no means.  "How much space does your apartment have?" is an inquiry
about area, not volume.

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