Subj : Some issues from some books
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Sun Nov 26 2023 12:13:58

Ardith Hinton to Anton Shepelev:

AS>> Is [it] possible -- two perfect bricks!
AH>
AH> Two bats with one brick?  I take that as a
AH> compliment....  :-))

Brick text is a colloquial term for a paragraph written in
monospace font that is perfectly right-adjusted without
additional whitespace.  In your article from  2023-04-04
23:52 you wrote two of them:

    1)  From my POV there's general agreement as to the eight parts of speech
        I learned about in my youth.  I know I can count on the dictionary in
        almost any European language to employ the same terminology even if I
        don't understand their idea of gender.  And until you & Anton started
        asking more advanced questions the Russians seemed content... [grin].

    2)  During the 1960's various linguists objected to the old rules & tried
        to make improvements... one of which I suspect may be the addition of
        the word "particle" in this context.  Not all dictionaries include it
        because it's not universally accepted & if you find it at all you may
        find little or no general agreement as to what it means.  At least if
        e.g. somebody adds articles to the parts of speech I get the picture,
        because I already know the term "article" as a subset of "adjective".

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