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Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@COGSCI.ED.AC.UK>
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From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@COGSCI.ED.AC.UK>
Subject:      TECH: Goats' legs and counting
To: Erik Rauch <erikr@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  I.Alexander.bra0125@UK.CO.ICL.OASIS's message of Wed,               3 Mar 1993 09:07:01 GMT <13694.9303030903@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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>  Date:     Wed, 3 Mar 1993 09:07:01 GMT
>  From: I.Alexander.bra0125@UK.CO.ICL.OASIS
>
>  Zero may be as good a number as any other,
>  but it's not _quite_ as simple as that.
>  There are lot's of other PA,
>  and some of them have other quantification
>  implications, e.g. {ro}.

So what?

{no da poi broda cu brode}  `The number of barring foos is zero.'
{so da poi broda cu brode}  `The number of barring foos is nine.'
{ro da poi broda cu brode}
  `The number of barring foos is as many as there are foos.'

Ivan