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Subject: [lojban] Re: A Proposed Explanation of {gunma}
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:23:23AM -0800, John E Clifford wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:38:56PM -0800, John
> > E Clifford wrote:
> > > The talk about the place structure of {gunma} and the
> > > subsequent expansions on that got me wondering just what a
> > > gunma, a "mass," is. 
> > 
> > The current belief is that it's what McKay calls a plural.  See
> > http://philosophy.syr.edu/mckay.html
> 
> Yours but probably not xorxes'; McKay's plurals are one reading of
> bunches.

xorxes has stated the opposite: that McKay's plurals are *not*
bunches.  I'm sure he's read it more carefully than I am, so maybe
he could speak up?

-Robin

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