Martin Bays, On 30/10/2011 21:25:
* Sunday, 2011-10-30 at 17:17 -0300 - Jorge Llambías<jjllambias@gmail.com>:but surely "these lions are dangerous, don't go near them" covers both "lions of this kind are dangerous, don't go near them" and "these particular individual lions are dangerous, don't go near them".That's technically true, and I had forgotten about this feature (bug?) of english... perhaps I have been giving english more disambiguating credit than it's worth...
The English can also mean "lions of these kinds" too, of course. (I mention that just to advance the extinction of Martin's faith in English being the language he had been wishing it to be.) --And. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.