On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Steven Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> (<3;]) 4
> I'm Always curious. Thanks Giles. Your explanation makes sense to me
> (even if I had to leave it for a few days to let it sink in). The
> trident evaluates to a verb, the left verb of which is always dyadic.
> Got it. That's kind of cool actually.
Technically it's the left verb of a bident which is always dyadic.
<3;]
< (3;])
The 3;] is the trident which turns it into a single verb fork.
In the verb pair, < is the left verb of a bident and bidents
create hooks and it's the < which will always get a left
argument.
(Also note that "trident" and "bident" are syntactic
terms where "fork" and "hook" are the corresponding
semantic terms. If that helps.)
--
Raul
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