On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 07:23 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Rodlen wrote: >> >>> I CFJ on the following: >>> "What is forced by rule 2029 to Dance a Powerful Dance?" >> >> Ineffective, neither a statement nor a yes/no question. > > Shouldn't it be judged MALFORMED, then? Or can the CotC catch those > before they're assigned? > > Anyway, judicial precedent is that only Marvies (or possibly, 'ye > Marvy') is forced to do the dancing, and that Marvy has no rules-defined > or common-language definition.
Neither does AGAINT. Among others, Maud is Marvy. "Marvies" is indeed a grammatical anathema. -G. ps. Maybe not the best reference (i.e. a good dictionary would give dialect origin, maybe the source does) but: http://www.yourdictionary.com/marvy.
