Re: [jboske] unresolved debates

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> * Usage overwhelmingly supports it; pretty much all prior usage
> of so'V would be invalidated.

The first clause may be true, but the second is surely false. Nothing
prevents "so'a" from meaning "all but an insignificant number" in particular
cases. I only object to drawing rigorous conclusions that this relationship
always holds.

> * We would need to find other ways to say "many/a few/most".

"Most" in particular is known to be intractable.

> chosen. Why wasn't {so'u} "almost none", and {so'i} "a middling
> number" or "about half", or suchlike?

*shrug*

I wrote it up the way the Bobster told me to. I am not responsible for his
choice of Logflash keywords.

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