[Lexicog] What is a bat? - natural and unnatural terms

[Kim Blewett]

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From: Ron Moe [mailto:ron_moe at sil.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2004 7:38 PM
To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Lexicog] What is a bat? - natural and unnatural terms

|Most (but not all) categories are defined from a human perspective. For
instance I believe the |difference between 'river' 'stream' and 'brook' in
my dialect is not the size of the river, but how |a person would cross it. A
person would swim across a river or look for a place to ford it. A |person
would wade across a stream. A person would jump across a brook.

Interesting perspective. Seems like "how a person would cross it" could have
something to do with size as well... I might be able to jump across a river
if I had PF Flyers (for those of us old enough to be the Gates' aunts &
uncles).

;-) it's been a long day...

Kim Blewett



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