On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, ais523 wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:26 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> If you were arguing that a vote was unclear because it was unclear or >> ambiguous in the way it used an abbreviation, all well and good. But I'm not >> going to support the idea that an abbreviation is automatically forbidden >> because an aspect of its definition was published outside the voting period. > Yes, I think I agree with you here. I've come to the same conclusion as > you. I think our reasoning may be different, though. (I'm thinking that > clear abbreviations must be allowed, because the rules and custom > support that, and unclear abbreviations must not be allowed, because the > rules and custom don't allow those.)
Well, we're agreed then... I think unclear *anything* (dialect, abbreviation, synonym, etc.) isn't generally allowed, and all the real issues with this vote are because here it's unclear what unclear means (as opposed of course to times when things are clearly unclear). -G.
