mer, 13 Jan 2010, Sherlock Ric skribis:
> > From: Tracy Harms
> >
> > I think of inflections as occurring to the right of characters other
> > than whitespace. I consider null, newline, and tab to be whitespace,
> > along with the space character. I don't see the count of characters as
> > significant. Longer primaries such as ( {:: ) are not subordinate.
>
> This is a nice and simple way of thinking of it. In other words the
> primitives ( p.. ) and ( {:: ) have a double inflection.
I think the role of . and : in p. {:: are word formation but not
inflection. If it is a inflection as in human language, the new
word should be a derivative of the root. eg,
think -> think-able
friend -> friend-ly
so that the speaker who know the root can understand the meaning of
the derivative without consulting a dictionary, but this is not the
case of J primitive.
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