<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I was with you 100% until that last detail of your interpretation. I don’t get 5,000 out of “be few, be several, be a handful”, regardless of context. I quite honestly think you’ve gone to one extreme at least as far as I went to the other, and I doubt there’s anything like justification for that extreme interpretation in either canon or conversation with Okrand.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s not claiming that I’m right and you are wrong. I’m merely stating that I am nothing like convinced that 5,000 of anything could be {puS} in anything but a comparative grammatical construction. Outside of that very fossilized construction, it quite sincerely does not feel like the right word.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 25, 2021, at 7:02 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/24/2021 11:27 PM, Will Martin
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The term “a couple” is two. It doesn’t sound as precise as two,
but it really is two.</blockquote><p class=""><i class="">Couple</i> means two, but if it turns out to be one or three,
you weren't incorrect. <i class="">Pair</i> and <i class="">brace</i> (archaic)
both mean exactly two.<br class="">
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<div class="">“several” is three or four. Two is already covered
by "a couple", and and five is covered by “a handful”.</div>
</blockquote><p class="">In no way do I associate five with a <i class="">handful.</i> I've never
heard anyone say that. To me, a <i class="">handful</i> is even more vague
than <i class="">several.</i><br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:50869D93-D008-4821-AD0F-EA29B0DA89C5@mac.com" class="">So, I read
{puS} as “3-5”.</blockquote><p class="">I read <b class="">puS</b> as<i class=""> significantly smaller than average.</i>
If I've got an army of a five thousand soldiers, and yours is only
six hundred soldiers, your soldiers are <b class="">puS.</b><br class="">
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