Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Zero-ness

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, August 13, 2000, 17:55
At 04:16 13.8.2000 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> > 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.
To me, knowing Latin, it seems to be implicitly present alredy in the series {..singular,dual,trial..plural..(universal?)}. Ray seems to agree. /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. ;)