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What does “a couple” mean to you, and what does “a few” mean to you?

These words only add value to English because they are vague; if that were not the case, English would need only the cardinals to represent quantities. A vague term, by definition, has no discrete boundary between itself and its coordinate term (its semantic neighbour). The gradated boundaries of vague terms make them uniquely efficient: Consider that a ...



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