Re: 'together vs. to gather'
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 18, 2004, 19:00 |
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--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:
> So let’s try it another way. The idea of
> “gathering”
> would just be “to bring something or some
> things
> closer together” (Latin “in simul”). So the
> concept of
> “plural-required” (or “mass-required”) is not
> included
> this way in the generic concept “to gather”,
> but in
> sub-generic concepts like “gathering something
> like
> dust, or honey” or “gathering some things like
> strawberries, or coins, or people” (but “the
> congregation gathered / dispersed” belongs more
> likely to the secund meaning).
I'll agree if we can leave number out all
together! Let's say 'gather' indicates a
"bringing together". Whether it's something
(sing.), somthings (pl.) or stuff (mass) is not
exactly relevant to the verb's naming of the
action.
Padraic.
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