is there a reason why the words "bond", "compose", "atop", "at" and "key" were chosen? Is there a naming context, or a natural language example to give a sense of how these words came to represent these ideas?
For the most part, I think I understand what these verbs and conjunctions do... it's just that I don't have a story behind them in the same way as I might for something like boxing. i.e. real world places where you immediately apply the inverse of a preceding function after doing an operation along the line of boxing (something that I read that Ken asked once). Examples of this: - open fridge door, get milk, close fridge door - surgeon: make incision, do operation, stitch up following up on some of these words. Here's what I got out of the oed earlier: key: b. intr. Of a plant or animal: to be identified or assigned to a particular taxon by the use of a key. Usu. with out. Any clues appreciated. thanks, -Steven T. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
