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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: plurals 
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:42:25 GMT
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bw@mail4.tripnet.se (Bertil Wennergren) writes in a recent posting (reference <5f3sgv$btc@minox.tripnet.se>):
>
>The stupid claims that "plurals exist in every language" etc. are not
>typical of Esperantist. I laughed just as much as everyone else.
>
FWIW the gentleman who made this (correct) claim was simply using the
word in a different (but correct) context.

The ability to indicate the difference between a single object and more 
than one object of the same class *is* universal, whether it is shown
by grammatical plural forms, modifiers, repetition, etc.
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