pleonasms [corrected post]

[Laurence Horn]

If anyone was wondering whether this message from last night was
contradictory, the answer is that it was; I'd meant to write "isn't
that UNcommon a disambiguator".  Tricky, those negatives.

larry

At 10:25 PM +0800 2/13/02, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>I would think "ink pen" isn't that common a disambiguator in just
>those dialects that have the merger.  While there aren't too many
>contexts in which you'd need to specify "ink pen" to distinguish it
>from "pig pen", I could imagine walking into a general store that
>sells both stationery supplies and notions (if that's what a straight
>pen is) and having to specify which kind of "pVn" one needed.
>
>larry
>