Floyd, here are my last comments on this. Everybody else please note that this is the third e-mail Floyd wrote to me, the other two being too long to be accepted by the list server. If you knew their contents, you´d understand me being a bit miffed. And apologies if this is getting on everybody´s nerves.
A few things before I answer Floyd's statements. Structure is how something is built or constructed, it is what is underlying the whole thing. Figures are something else. Jake wrote something about structure of tango, maybe you want to read that: http://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/2006/msg05359.html Or here is how the Merrill-Webster Online Dictionary defines structure: 1struc·ture Pronunciation: \ˈstrək-chər\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin structura, from structus, past participle of struere to heap up, build — more at strew Date: 15th century 1: the action of building : construction2 a: something (as a building) that is constructed b: something arranged in a definite pattern of organization <a rigid totalitarian structure — J. L. Hess> <leaves and other plant structures>3: manner of construction : makeup <Gothic in structure>4 a: the arrangement of particles or parts in a substance or body <soil structure> <molecular structure> b: organization of parts as dominated by the general character of the whole <economic structure> <personality structure> c: coherent form or organization <tried to give some structure to the children's lives>5: the aggregate of elements of an entity in their relationships to each other <the structure of a language> The posting was far too long, so I have divided it into three parts...more in Part 2 _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
