Rob Speer on 13 Jan 2002 19:22:43 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: CFJ -- invalid proposals 

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:22:51AM -0500, Greg Ritter wrote:
> At 05:35 AM 1/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Proposals 229, 230, 231, 240, 241 and 242 are not valid proposals because 
> >they do not use the Standard Delimiters listed in Rule 217.
> 
> Nowhere does Rule 217 require that the Standard Delimiters be used; it only 
> defines what they mean.

Right. I didn't even conceive of my rule being interpreted to say that
Standard Delimiters had to be used.

They are a convenience, like Spivak pronouns.
-- 
Rob Speer