On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:08:20PM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > And Rosta scripsit: > > 1. substance > > 2. prototype. > > 3. unique. Unique still makes no sense to me. > I think this is exactly the Right Thing in every respect, and > with the addition of 4. individual(s), should form our new gadri > system. I do think however that the term "unique" is bad, because > it suggests that there is literally, rather than notionally, only > one of the thing. Whereas in fact what I take to be going on is > a sort of superposition of the actual things (birds, Superbowl games, etc.) Wait a minute. What's the "new gadri system". I don't think we can or should abandon the current system. Any clarifcations which are made should be just that---we can't and shouldn't change things so that "loi djacu" is meaningless and no longer means bare "water" or whatever crap xod was pushing. > We can talk of "the LLG meeting" using this form, because it is an annual > recurrence of the same thing. -- 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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