--- 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