[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign - help!Wilfred,
My changing an other to another was merely a morphological correction. It's
merely a rule in English. I'm not sure why it's a rule. Maybe it's because of
the pronunciation. The n' in an is felt to be part of the other. For
instance,
Jim,
I don't think that in fact you _would_ say "an...other serving" in
order to mean "another kind of serving." I think that you're drawing right now
on the sense of "other" in a sentence like "He was different, other" -- which is
an unusual use of "other" but isclear enough to sustain its
Jim,
I said,
The only time that one properly splits them without an intervening
word is when one indicates vocal stress of "other" by itself apart from "an"
along with the syllabification "an-other" -- as in "an other
thing."
I guess that that does approximate
Dear Ben, Wilfred--
Ben, I'm no grammarian and you may well be correct
as to whento use other vs another. In any case I did not mean
to dispute your use of "another". I was mostlygoing off on a
tangentinspired by Wilfred's speculations as to what the distinctions
might imply. I defer to
