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From: pete@swcp.com (Pete Humphrey)
Subject: Re: PBS is at it again---so are the Linguists
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:04:03 GMT
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> Now, you may have noticed that the word _language_ can be either
> _language[1]_, an abstract mass noun, which means roughly "the ability
> to speak", or _language[2]_, a countable noun meaning a particular
> instantiation of _language[1]_ such as English or French.

> Your use of the quantifier _any_ in your exclamation identified your
> _language_ as _language[2]_.  Your defenses indicate that you intended
> to say _language[1]_.  Why not say what you mean and mean what you
> say?  

Are you saying _any_ only modifies count nouns? 

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Pete Humphrey
