Judging by
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/partsofspeech.htm
"EVOKE" on the vocabulary page should be in
mixed-case bold italic.



----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:33 am
Subject: RE: [Jgeneral] Is EVOKE (~) an adverb ?

> ~ is not evoke; its meaning depends on the part of speech
> of its operand.
> 
> m~ is evoke; u~ is reflexive/passive.  I suspect that the
> case on the Vocabulary page was intended to make that
> distinction.
> 
> If so, perhaps it should be consistent in the description of
> b. .   m b. is Boolean, u b. is Basic; should it be shown as
> 
> Basic / BOOLEAN
> 
> ?
> 
> Henry Rich 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus 
> > Schmidt-Groettrup
> > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:57 PM
> > To: General forum
> > Subject: [Jgeneral] Is EVOKE (~) an adverb ?
> > 
> > When reading the definition of an adverb EVOKE ~ clearly 
> > seems to be an 
> > adverb,
> > it has only one left argument,
> > its result is not restricted to be a noun as for a verb.
> > 
> > Other than other adverbs it does not take a verb as argument 
> > but a noun.
> > 
> > The vocabulary show adverbs in bold italics.
> > EVOKE is displayed in normal font, but upper case letters.
> > 
> > The part of speech page does not show ~ as EVOKE.
> > 
> > Any consequences of these observations to the use of EVOKE ?
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