This: >All things in J, called ENTITIES, are one of the four principal parts of >speech (verb, noun, adverb, conjunction).
>but then page 13 discusses INFLECTIONS. is not a contradiction. The contexts are different. The entities page 3 refers are semantic, and inflections are syntactic. Page 3 is discussing words, page 13 is discussing, for want of a better analogy, letters. (Actually, perhaps a better analogy would be "accents" or "diacritics".) Just as saying "all words in English are either nouns or verbs" and then saying "putting an 'E' on the end of a word can change the meaning of the word" is not a contradiction, neither are the above statements. > I suppose we could consider an inflection an adverb. Inflections cannot be adverbs, because adverbs are words. Inflections are not words, they're part of the spelling of a word. In English, the letter E is not a word (so it can't be an adverb), but if you put it on the end of an existing word, you get a new (possibly undefined) word. -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
