User talk:Gwern

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Again, welcome! Mglovesfun (talk) 15:09, 30 April 2010 (UTC)


 * That was hardly my first edit, you know. I have edits going back to 2006... --Gwern 15:44, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * That was hardly my first edit, you know. I have edits going back to 2006... --Gwern 15:44, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

plication
In your edit summary for this entry, you asked rhetorically whether a definition didn't imply the existence of synonyms.

It does not. For many nouns it implies the existence of one or more hypernyms. To pick a clear case, the core prepositions have many senses that have no synonyms. DCDuring TALK 08:45, 5 August 2010 (UTC)