At Wednesday 2005-04-27 14:14, Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
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You bet it ain't proper, whatever syntagm means. What the heck's a syntagm?
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and just a little more research http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=syntagm says: 2 entries found for syntagm. syn·tag·ma P Pronunciation Key (sn-tgm) also syn·tagm (sntm) n. pl. syn·tag·mas or syn·tag·ma·ta (-tgm-t) also syn·tagms 1. A sequence of linguistic units in a syntagmatic relationship to one another. 2. A sequence of words in a particular syntactic relationship to one another; a construction. [New Latin, from French syntagme, from Greek suntagma, suntagmat-, arrangement, syntactic unit, from suntassein, suntag-, to put in order. See syntax.] [deleted] Victor A. Wagner Jr. http://rudbek.com The five most dangerous words in the English language: "There oughta be a law"