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Re: Nullar (Was: Re: Noun Number)

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 2:50
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> The original idea really actually came from the title of a math book, > called "Zero, One, Infinity" (or some variant thereof). So when I started > working on my conlang and came across the issue of plurality, I thought > the "usual" way of singular/plural is too boring. So instead of the idea > of "one" and "many", I thought, how about "zero", "one" and "many"?
Makes sense. "Many" is simply the countless things that are there; "zero" is the countless things that aren't there; and "one" is the one thing that is here.
> T
> Curiosity kills the cat. Moral: don't be the cat.
! Padraic.

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