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Martin Bays, On 30/10/2011 21:25:
> * Sunday, 2011-10-30 at 17:17 -0300 - Jorge Llamb=EDas<jjllambias@gmail.c=
om>:
>> but surely "these lions are dangerous, don't go near them" covers both
>> "lions of this kind are dangerous, don't go near them" and "these
>> particular individual lions are dangerous, don't go near them".
>
> That's technically true, and I had forgotten about this feature (bug?)
> of english... perhaps I have been giving english more disambiguating
> credit than it's worth...

The English can also mean "lions of these kinds" too, of course. (I mention=
 that just to advance the extinction of Martin's faith in English being the=
 language he had been wishing it to be.)

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