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Re: monastery

Lieven Litaer ([email protected])

• From: "Lieven Litaer" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: monastery
• Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:35:43 +0100
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Perhaps my english is so bad that I do not understand this corectly:

Marc Okrand:
> The word for monastery is {ghIn}. This is a pretty general term for a 
> religious community 

naHQun:
> But the second one seems to say "ghIn=general term for a relgious
> comunity".

My question to you english speakers:
what does this phrase mean literally?
"This is a general term for a community."

Does it mean "The word is THE WORD FOR <<community>>" or does it mean "This is a general term WHICH IS USED BY a community"?

Look again to the above phrase by MO: he first uses the expression "the word for... is". Then he says "it's a term for".

By the way, "Christmas" is a also a term for a religious community, isn't it?

Quvar.
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