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| Feb 24, 2014 at 6:42 | comment | added | Leon Conrad | I'd have to go back to the original Greek and check your Sextus citation - for now, I can't see why the distinction is made there between 'things' and 'somethings' and why 'somethings' is different from 'some things' or 'things' (in English!) | |
| Feb 24, 2014 at 5:57 | comment | added | Kris | @LeonConrad It necessary to forget about some things and look at somethings as a different semantic entity. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 7:03 | comment | added | Leon Conrad | It's more likely the syntax would be 'heavy somethings' if 'somethings' is used as a noun, which it can be. Where 'some' is used as a quantitative determiner with 'thing', the alternative would be 'some heavy thing'. Since 'something' has become a compound word, the adjective shifts to the right and we get 'something heavy'. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 6:30 | history | edited | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2014 at 6:19 | history | edited | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2014 at 5:58 | history | answered | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |