| Ed Murphy on Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:20:37 -0700 (MST) |
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| Re: [s-d] [s-b] Asplosion!!!!!! |
teucer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I believe said PD is already correct. Rule 5E36 does not require a >> Question or Statement to be delimited in any particular fashion. > > Your PD assumes that it is delimited in some fashion, despite the lack > of anything intended as a delimiter. Please state for me why you > believe "whether" is not part of the body of the consultation. Consider the two possibilities: 1) "whether the above created a Proposal." 2) "the above created a Proposal." 5E36 requires a Question or Statement. Neither possibility is a very good Question, nor clearly better than the other; but possibility #2 is clearly better than #1 as a Statement, flawed only in capitalization. _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss