On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:46 AM, comex <com...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> No, e's arguing that by "such an announcement", the rule means that. >> It actually seems rather intuitive that "such an announcement" would >> refer to a subset of announcements > > It refers to the subset of announcements in which the announcer claims > that e performed duties related to a contest in a timely manner during > a month.
Respectfully disagree. >>> It explicitly states "a player makes such an announcement", >>> not "that player makes such an announcement" or "such an announcement >>> is made", which would be more natural wordings in context. >> >> Certainly not. "That player makes such an announcement" would make no >> sense, as the previous paragraph refers to the contestmaster of each >> contest, not a single contestmaster. And I fail to see why "such an >> announcement is made" should be interpreted any differently, other >> than not implicitly requiring the contestmaster to be a player (which >> of course is already required by other rules). > > The "for each contest" bit already implicitly extends to the next > paragraph because there's text afterwards about "that contest", so > "that player" would make perfect sense. No, "that contest" refers to the contest described in "such an announcement". It does not itself refer back to the previous paragraph. > While > > As soon as possible after that player makes such an announcement, > > is a bit awkward, > > As soon as possible after such an announcement, > > is not awkward but more consistent with the wording of other rules. > The unnecessary "a player" strongly suggests that any player can make > the announcement, just as we do not interpret "a player CAN deregister > by announcement" to refer to a single, unspecified player. And "such an announcement" strongly suggests an announcement made as described in the previous paragraph, which would make the rule inconsistent. If it instead read "As soon as possible after a contestmaster makes such an announcement", would you also infer that to somehow imply that contestmasters could simply make effective announcements willy-nilly, disregarding the previous paragraph entirely? -root
