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Re: Number in Trentish

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, December 16, 2001, 5:36
John Cowan wrote:
> Stephen Pinker believes that "mice" carries a strong connotation of an > aggregation, and that's why people resist using it as the plural of > "mouse" in the sense "computer pointing device".
Yet, "two mice" certainly doesn't sound weird to me. I once had pet mice, and never once thought it odd to say "two mice". I tend to think of "mouse" in the computer term as merely homophonous with "mouse" in the biological sense, with no more connection between them than the two sense of "bat". Yes, I know that "mouse" in the computer sense was named after "mouse" in the biological sense, I just can't see the connection. :-) -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42