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Re: Negative ordinality (was: Please welcome . . .)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, December 15, 2003, 2:37
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:16:08PM -0500, Paul Bennett wrote:
> Also, it strikes me that preantepenultimate ought to mean |x < n - 2| > rather than |x = n - 3|, but maybe that's just me.
The same argument applies to "antepenultimate" itself. After all, "ante meridian" doesn't mean "11 o'clock in the morning". :) -Mark