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Re: Relatives, interrogatives and other such particles

From:Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...>
Date:Saturday, April 22, 2006, 3:37
On 4/21/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
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> This makes it tricky to ask things like > "Do you have any cats?" -- the most straightforward way would > be ambiguous with "Which cats do you have?" This is > probably too confusing and I may well drop it. Or maybe there > is an alternate word for "some/any" that is used only in > questions...? Or a circumlocution like "one or more"?
Wouldn't you just say "Do you have cats?" ---Larry

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Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Michael Adams <michael.adams1@...>
Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>