question: public String handleWord ( String aWord ) { Matcher m = conditionPattern . matcher ( aWord ) ; if ( m != null && m . matches ( ) ) { if ( type . equals ( AffixType . PREFIX ) ) { return handlePrefix ( aWord ) ; } else if ( type . equals ( AffixType . SUFFIX ) ) { return handleSuffix ( aWord ) ; } } return null ; }
target:  Adopt this affix on a given word