> > No, it doesn't work for me. The bright high light circles > behind the hand don't help. I'd rather see a transaction with > a waiting hand for the money too. > Transaction implies both giver and receiver.
you're probably not interested in this, but each natural language predicate has a fixed number of arguments. For example, in the proposition 'Mary likes John' the predicate 'likes' takes 2 arguments, in this case Mary and John, and is called a 2-place predicate. It's thought that there are no 4-place predicates in natural language, but likely candidates are 'buy' and 'sell' (which are essentially the same activity from different perspectives). For example, 'Henri sold his Leica to Bob for $100'. The act of trading (the transaction) necessarily involves 4 arguments: buyer, seller, goods/service & payment. In a barter, the payment may also be goods or services. Of course, not all transactions are trades. See, I told you you weren't interested...<g> -- Cheers, Bob
