Re: Zero-ness
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 9, 2000, 1:59 |
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:
>In a message dated 2000/08/09 01:43:02 AM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG wrote:
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>>"Plural nouns" and "singular nouns" are easily understood, but "zero
>>nouns" may be misread to mean no nouns, instead of a noun in its zero
>>number... so I need a better term! Suggestions will be appreciated!
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>_nul_ ? _nil_? (hehe, _zip_)
Perhaps ciphral? As in ciphral, singular, dual, plural, etc.
Interesting concept! And if I'm not mistaken, the first time
anyone's mentionned it.
Padraic.
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