Re: An "original" observation

What other things can a change of article do?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

> --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
>
> > From: Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
>
> > I noticed a quirk of the English word "original"
> > that relates to the two classes of "adjectives" in
> > Tirelat. "Original" has (at least) two different
> > meanings in English: one answering the question "what
> > kind of?" (i.e., novel, imaginative), and the other one
> > answering the question "which one?" (i.e. the one
> > that came first).
>
> Interesting. I notice also that when not answering a question the
> distinction is made by the choice of article: "an original manuscript" vs
> "the original manuscript".
>
> --gary
>


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