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Re: TECH: RE: Goats' legs and counting

To: Erik Rauch <erikr@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: TECH: RE: Goats' legs and counting
From: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 15:47:19 -0500
In-reply-to: <9303010900.AA29295@getafix.oasis.icl.co.uk> from "I.Alexander.bra0125@oasis.icl.co.uk" at Mar 1, 93 09:00:43 am
Reply-to: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
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mi pu cusku di'e

> > Unspecified sumti are quantified in an unspecified way.
> > ...
> > Since unspecified sumti have vague quantifiers,
> > it doesn't matter where they go.

la .i,n cusku di'e

> At first I didn't know _what_ to make of the former statement,
> until I realised that there are two obvious candidates,
> existential and universal quantification,
> and it could just be ambiguous which is intended.
> Then I re-read 
[remainder of message lost? - Robin Lee Powell - Feb 2010]

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