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Re: Zero-ness

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Sunday, August 13, 2000, 9:16
BP Jonsson wrote:

> 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. > > What is your problem with "nullar", if any? It seems well formed in Latin > and English.
I don't actually have a problem with "nullar". All the terms put forward so far seem a bit awkward to me, but perhaps this is mostly just a result of never having used a term for something like this before. I don't like "nihilar" since it seems to suggest the lack of an object rather than an abstract number which represents lack, period; nor do I find any of the others particularly attractive. I guess "nullar" wins by default. ====================================== Tom Wier | "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." ======================================