[Tango-L] The subject...Pt. 1

[Andreas Wichter]

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