Properties

[John Reimer]

Hello Christopher,

> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> Hello Nick,
>> 
>>> But, of course, adjectives (just like "direct/indirect objects") are
>>> themselves nouns.
>>> 
>> Umm... May I make a little correction here? Adjectives are not nouns.
>> They are used to /describe/ nouns.
>> 
>> -JJR
>> 
> No programming language that I know distinguishes parts of an object
> (the hand of a body) from attributes of an object (the color of a
> ball). I think that's what he was getting at.
> 



Yes, I was not critiquing his commentary on programming languages: it would 
have been dangerous for me to do so :).  I was being (perhaps overly) nit-picky 
about his statement that incorrectly paralleled English grammar to the topic 
of discussion.

-JJR