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>From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
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Subject: Re: missing verbs (was: Biological Sex Differences...)
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In article <1992Sep9.230021.5182@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>
>Umm, no.  The problem was to replace phrases like "A defeated B" by a
>homologous phrase with the same meaning, like "B <verbed> A", where A
>and B are of equivalent status.  Really, half of the verbs seem to be
>missing, in this sense.  It is really hard to say that <Jack verbed
>Jim> in a case in which we regard Jack as coming out the worse for the
>event. 

"I lost to Jim?"

Big Al.  Pretty obvious, huh?


