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From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: terminology
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:46:05 -0400
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In article <verb-20120422003824@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> >    context             sentence
> >.------------------.   .------------.
> >java.lang.Thread     . dumpStack()
> >java.lang.System.out . print    ( 2 )
> >                       '-------'
> >                         verb
> 
>   I just found some support here:
> 
>      »LINGUISTIC METAPHORS IN SOFTWARE DESIGN«
> 
>       (...)
> 
>      »Messages      resemble sentences
>       Method names  resemble verb and noun phrases«
> 
> http://www.educery.com/papers/rhetoric/road/
> 
>   (But the second observation makes me think about
>   using »word« instead of »verb«.)

The combination of a verb plus a noun phrase makes me think of a 
grammatical predicate

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(grammar)>,

but predicate can also mean the result of evaluating a logical 
expression.

-- 
John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>