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Re: noun + noun : `of the' or `which equals'?



>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 05:49:33 -0700
>From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>

>It was better to let folks find it for themselves, methinks, but if you're
>going to spell it out, a better contrast is provided by this pair:

>"No enemy is boring."

>1.  There's no such thing as a boring enemy.
>2.  It's boring to have no enemy.

Exactly.  Soqra'tIS' pair didn't really seem very helpful to me:

>[email protected] (Soqra'tIS) writes:
>\ jIyaj. majQa'.
>\ "(zero) enemies are boring" "(none of the) enemies are boring" 'ej. maj. maj.

~mark


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