>In a sense. What I said initially was that they represent an offset into a table containing the address of the entry point in the runtime where the machine is. You may view this as "blah, blah". I don't. It is distinctly different than how a true interpreter works.

So what. The spoken word represents an "offset" into some index that can take one to a particular page or an entry in a dictionary. The word (token) "is"; the "interpreter" performs the lookup and translation and performs the corresponding action. The decompiler stops short of the action.