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Re: USAGE: subway

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 19:41
Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>For the same reason we call certain flightless critters "birds"; the >definition of "subway" is prototype-based.
Or legless lizards, lizards rather than snakes (he ha weak analogy since they are in fact lizards, but they look like snakes except they can blink).