Re: 'together vs. to gather'

The "action of collecting": what is it else than
putting several things together ? That there will be
any result or not does not change the meaning of the
concept. To start collecting and get nothing just
means than you started the activity of collecting
several things but it somehow failed. You don't start
gathering, or collecting, with the aim of getting
nothing, neither just one item.

--- Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> wrote:
>
> What I mean is that the notion of "number" has
> nothing to do with the verb, because I can engage
> in "gathering" without ever actually obtaining
> anything. In other words, the word "gather"
> refers to the action of collecting, not to the
> objects collected (or their number) or the
> subject collecting.

=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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