Re: sets, masses, &c. (was: RE: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautol...

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> No, but you could say "a bowl full of shirt" if the bowl is
> full of shirts that have lost their shirtal integrity.

The English word for this is "shirting". Typically shirting
becomes shirts at some point, but in principle shirts can be
dismantled either physically or conceptually into shirting.
Similarly, the mass term for pants is "panting".

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