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It is also spoken in many countries as a second language and used in official and
...... by the German mathematician and philosopher Gottlieb Frege (1848-1925).
...... So the hyperbole here, though used in verse, is not poetic but linguistic. ......
of a word, e. g. near, nearer, nearest; son, son's, sons, sons' (see1 p. 23).

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