Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute
| From: | bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 10:24 |
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--- Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> wrote: > ---
Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
>
> > Then there's the interesting fact that e-mail is a
> > count noun, while mail is a mass noun.
>
> Neat. For me email is both.
>
for me mail is usually e-, whilst post ( count form :
letter ) is what, errm, goes thro the post
not that i don't understand mail in that sense as
well, but it feels slightly foreign
bn
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