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Re: [engelang] Re: Self-segmenting words & the treatment of names

John Cowan, On 15/05/2006 22:30:

And Rosta scripsit:


As I said in one of my messages yesterday, fixed arity means no


I think that is true only if:

a)	you can distinguish operators and operands lexically
b)	you suffix each operand with the bracket, treating it as
		a zero-arity operator


Fixed arity with polish notation, I meant. If you understood that, then I don't understand what you're saying...
Ah, good thinking. Yes: "husband/boyfriend" etc. 

But does anyone pronounce this "husband boyfriend"?  I think it's just a
way of writing "husband or boyfriend", and I'd automatically pronounce
it that way. 

Or "husband slash boyfriend" or "husband stroke boyfriend"...


"And/or", however, meaning "and or or", is in fact an example of this pattern.


And "AC/DC". Maybe others too.

--And.