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 it is recommended that nonstandard nouns (nouns defined via step #2 or #3) are initially capitalized to distinguish them from standard nouns, which will never be capitalized. however, this is just proposed convention and is not required to conform to the standard.
 
+numerical literal nouns refer to the numbers themselves, such that, for instance, `2#_g` would mean "two people".
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 ## the meaning of a sentence
 a sentence consists of a single expression. each expression evaluates to a noun, and so to find the meaning of a sentence, the expression is evaluated. if the expression's meaning is X, then the meaning of the sentence is "there exists X".