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Re: Zero-ness

From:Terrence Donnelly <pag000@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 9, 2000, 15:25
At 10:30 AM 08/09/2000 +0200, B. Philip Jonsson wrote:
>At 00:38 10.8.2000 -0700, Jim Grossmann wrote: > >>But you're talking about a number that contrasts with singular and plural, >>so you need a different name. >> >>I'd go with Johnathan Chang's "nil" or "null." > >"nullar" would fit nicely with "singular, dual..plural" >
How about "paucal" ? -- Terry http://www.geocities.com/teresh_2000 http://www.geocities.com/weseb_2000
>/BP 8^)> >-- > B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se mailto:melrochX@mail.com (delete X) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >"Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, >and so they are gone to milk the bull." > -- Sam. Johnson (no rel. ;) >