Re: Zero-ness

At 12:52 09.8.2000 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> >
> > > "Nihilar"?  :)
> > >
> > > (Don't ask me how to pronounce this in English)
> >
> > It would end up being something like /ni:-laR/ in my dialect
>
>If I had to use it, I would feel compelled to pronounce the <h>,
>which makes it sound awkward for me.  Thus, my resistence of the
>term.
>
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>Tom Wier   |     "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero."
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What is your problem with "nullar", if any?  It seems well formed in Latin
and English.

/BP 8^)>
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