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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:39:35AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> le tirxu cu catra le gerku .ibaubo le te lisri na ka'e kancu

    The tiger(s) kill(ed) the dog(s).  In language: the storyteller
    can't count.

"the storryteller can't count" isn't a language.  I might generously
accept it as a description of a (class of) language(s), but that seems
an odd usage.

-Robin

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