Re: Re: The two lo'es (was: essentials of a gadri system)

And Rosta scripsit:

> And we can certainly say "John is reading the NY Times" without seeing that
> as in any way characteristic of the NY Times. (Though as it happens, in
> fact,
> "read by John Cowan" is for me one of the most salient characteristics of
> the NY Times.)

Rather, that must be a le'e characteristic, for in fact John Cowan only
reads the NYT rather rarely: almost exclusively on Tuesdays, and not
all of those.

> It would be useful to have something that is a blend of ro and so'e, for
> making default generalizations. Something weaker than ro, but a little
> stronger than the overly-statistical so'e.

So'e, despite its keyword, is not statistical. It is simply a vague
number less than so'a and more than so'i.

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