Re: Disambiguating polysemy (was: "triggers et al" as I presently understand them)

Hi, I'm new.  :-)

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> Don't worry. It has been my experience that someone, somewhere, somewhen
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A bit off topic, but wouldn't it be a wonderful layer of sense if
English (and others) were aligned like that for real:

* somewhere
* somehow
(so far so good, then...)
* somewho (instead someone)
* somewhat (instead of something)
* somewhen (instead of sometime)

Like German, irgendwas, irgendwann, irgendwie, usw.  Why not jedewas,
jedewann, jedewie...?

I think I'll try to make a point of adopting this in common speech,
albeit only for the funny looks, and certainly when I start working on
a vocabulary for my conlang.  :-)

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