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2004-08-24 Thread musamize ssemakula
Note: forwarded message attached. Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!--- Begin Message --- Scientific American, August 20, 2004 Study Suggests Language Shapes Thoughts   Shakespeare once wrote “that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell

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2004-08-24 Thread YOSWA DAMBISYA
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/25/04 12:33AM >>> an aside: In Luganda anaimals are generally uncountable. Thus enkoko can mean 1 or many chickens, and so it is with cattle and many animals (empologoma, embizzi, embuzi , etc) However, as a friend told me, in Lugwere -- with which Luganda has about 6

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2004-08-25 Thread musamize ssemakula
Mr. Dambisya:   Now, I do know that there are differences in the thought process of a  UPC-supporter vs, say a DP supporter. But that is neither here nor there, with respect to counting.   My point in Luganda vs Lugwere was simply that enkoko in Luganda is uncountable in that it can denote 1 or mor