[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: DH sign question

[Sue Wartell]

zanooda:
... I can see now from your responses guys (thanks, BTW :-)) that I didn't pose the question correctly, sorry about that. I meant to ask something like this: "Is such an interpretation (three-part object) possible at all?" I mean, regardless of the shape :-). If, theoretically speaking, the sign was a square, with a circle and a line inside, could it be called "triangular sign" because it consists of three elements? The question is about the meaning of the word and its use, mostly :-).

Sue:
No one I know would ever use the word triangular for anything that was not a 3-sided figure (which is another way of saying a 3-angled figure.)  "Tripartite" would work for your theoretical square-circle-line figure, but "triangular" would not. Informally, someone might call it a "triple sign" meaning (again) that it contains 3 parts, but that would not be the usual usage of triple.