Ardith Hinton:

>     1)  From my POV there's general agreement as to the eight parts of speech
>         I learned about in my youth.  I know I can count on the dictionary in
>         almost any European language to employ the same terminology even if I
>         don't understand their idea of gender.  And until you & Anton started
>         asking more advanced questions the Russians seemed content... [grin].
>
>     2)  During the 1960's various linguists objected to the old rules & tried
>         to make improvements... one of which I suspect may be the addition of
>         the word "particle" in this context.  Not all dictionaries include it
>         because it's not universally accepted & if you find it at all you may
>         find little or no general agreement as to what it means.  At least if
>         e.g. somebody adds articles to the parts of speech I get the picture,
>         because I already know the term "article" as a subset of "adjective".
>

Is possible -- two perfect bricks!

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