Re: Invention of the Alphabet

Des Small <des.small@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I've persisted in defending Peter's very concrete and explicit test
> for opacity.
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But LSD makes the points that opaque expressions are not necessarily
words and that compound words are not necessarily opaque. Therefore,
a test for opacity is not a good test for words. These are good
points.

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Greg Lee <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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