Re: Oh, no - not another learning experience!!

[Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Combs,
Richard<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> wrote:
> Susan Hogarth wrote:
>
>> To which he somewhat patronizingly replied:
>>
>> > As for the "any other party" part, the difference is between the
>> > non-capitalized "party" as in another political party, versus the
>> > capitalized (and defined in the Bylaws) "Party" as being distinct
> from
>> > each other.  It's not confusing at all if you follow the context
>> correctly.
>>
>> Your verdict, Members of the Jury?
>
> The "Party" is presumably defined as being a political party. Thus,
> "Party" and "party" are not "distinct from each other" -- the former is
> a subset of the latter. But that's somewhat beside the point in any
> case.
>
> "Other" and "except" serve the same scope-narrowing purpose in this
> sentence, and using both is redundant and unnecessary. OTOH, I don't
> think it will confuse people, and I wouldn't spend much time worrying
> about it. Consider giving in on that one and saving your energy for more
> deserving issues. There are bound to be some. :-)

This was exactly my take on the situation, except that NOTING in more
important than being correct about picayune wording issues! ;-)

-- 
Susan Hogarth
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