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Re: [lojban] Lions and levels and the like



* Monday, 2011-11-14 at 15:24 -0500 - maikxlx <maikxlx@gmail.com>:

> But yesterday as I was reading random online materials (this one -
> http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/Talks/GenericitySeattle.ho.pdf ), I
> found what I think is a good bunch-resisting, kind-example:
> 
> - (2a) Transistors were invented by Shockley.

I don't think we should feel obliged to treat as a jbokind (whatever
they end up being) everything for which English uses a bare plural.

In this case, surely what Shockley invented was the idea (si'o) of
a transistor.

Martin

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