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Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, January 19, 2004, 21:07
En réponse à Philippe Caquant :


>So why should I give up thinking about this other >question ?
I didn't say "give up", just "don't try too hard". The point being that as in any kind of science, if you really try really hard to prove something, you will always succeed. It doesn't mean that the result you'll get will have any meaning though.
> Only through questions and doubt and >re-examination will there be progress.
Of course. But if you keep on try to find something out for too long, you'll always find it out, but it will have become meaningless. If an idea you're following just keeps evading you, you need to know when to recognise it's not worth following any longer. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.