Re: Definiteness
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 3, 2008, 1:01 |
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In a message dated 3/2/2008 14:00:08 PM Central Standard Time,
paul.w.bennett@GMAIL.COM writes:
> > The definite article, and a generic demonstrative - what's the
> > difference?
>
> Semantically, very little, if any.
>
> I suspect you could replace every demonstrative "that" and every "the" in
> English both with "bleen" and be just as expressive and concise (once the
> listener knew what "bleen" meant).
>
I worked for a short time with some patent lawyers, and every time they meant
"the", they substituted "such". It was really bizarre.
stevo </HTML>
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