On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:

Even
the operators at hand ('many' and 'some') are partial in parsing, but
I'm not prepared to throw them out.

Okay, I must confess that this straw man has been causing my patience to get a little thing.  *Nobody* here is saying that many and some should be thrown out, since there are clearly many contexts where they are very useful.  The *most* that has been suggested is that they should be moved into a subclass in order to make it explicit when they are sensible, and that is *hardly* banning them.