strangled

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/2/2009 02:03 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>
>>In other words, "strangled" generally means "terminally choked".
>
>yes.  and this constitutes another example of Y=X+something (the
>something in this case being telicity), a pattern i've written about a
>number of times.

Perhaps I should have written
      In other words, strangling is terminal choking
to make it more obvious I was not asserting anything dialecticious,
but rather attempting a feeble choke on another chain.

Joel

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