On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:36 PM, PackRat <pack...@anet.com> wrote:
> entries (sometimes numerically superscripted or subscripted).  Though
> the monadic and dyadic forms of a primitive may be similar or related,
> they are still TWO DIFFERENT THINGS and ought to be separated, just as
> inflected primitives are separated from each other.  (In other words,
> "verb y" has a different meaning from "x verb y", just as "verb" and
> "verb." and "verb:" have different meanings from each other, though
> often related.)

In every dictionary entry I have seen for verbs, the monadic
case is treated in a separate definition from the dyadic case.

They are on the same page, but that seems within normal
practice for dictionaries (which usually have all the
definitions for a word on one page).

-- 
Raul
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