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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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In article <795407806snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:

   The reason Eurolang adjectives don't inflect for plurality is because 
   if would add no extra information. OTOH, if I was consistent about this
   rule, I could sometimes omit plural markers in nouns, eg:

There are certainly many more features to remove if you want to avoid
redundancy.

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