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Two corrections
ai draga'i 2 le se srera
1. In my mail of JUl 13 about sumti categories, I reproduced John's
comment
>
> > For example, I am quite unsure as to the features of 'banxa'. Consider the
> > feature +/- concrete.
>
> Like Jorge, I believe that "banxa" is -concrete, and that the bank branch
> is a "banxydinju". This may be influenced because I work for, but not in,
> a bank, and in fact think of the bank branches as rather peripheral parts
> of the bank-entity.
but somehow omitted my answer which was:
I very much prefer that interpretation of 'banxa'. My point was that it
is not clear from the gimste, and I would not be at all surprised if it
had been used with the other meaning before we started being more critical
(cf cukta)
2. In today's posting re ill-formedness, the last example should of course
have read
lo skacau ke crino sidbo cu vilfengu sipna
(not 'vilfenki')
Colin