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From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:08:41PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> At 10:50 AM 3/13/03 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >> Instead of looking at the differences, you might look at the
> >> similarities.
> >
> >*WHAT* similarities?!?  Nerves collect data, collate it, and push it to
> >other things *just* *like* *them*.
[...]
> >Yes, some of that was hyperbole, but far from all of it.
> >
> >And you wonder why I'm concerned about polysemy in this case.  Yeesh.
>=20
> There is no polysemy.  Polysemy in natural language usually comes about=
=20
> when words evolve in multiple directions and the original connection=20
> between them is lost or forgotten.  Keepiong gismu broad in meaning and=
=20
> using lujvo to do the evolved meanings should prevent much polysemy.

If nirna can mean both a phone and an optic cable, it is clearly
polysemous.

--=20
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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