Sean Hunt wrote: > I CFJ {The proposal entitled It's the Thought That Counts, if adopted, > would successfully cause the first Rule Change described in its text.} > I CFJ {The proposal entitled It's the Thought That Counts, if adopted, > would successfully cause the second Rule Change described in its text.} [...] > Notably, definition 3 features "append", and makes no mention of > insertion at an arbitrary location. Therefore it seems obvious that > "add" should be taken to mean "append".
Gratuitous: If the proposal read "insert" or "amend the list to include" rather than "append", then the change would almost certainly be ambiguous. The judge is requested to provide a general rubric for determining whether a given near-synonym for "append"/"insert" is ambiguous or unambiguous, and if possible to do so for potentially-ambiguous terminology in general. [Not part of gratuitous arguments: this may warrant increasing the case's II considerably if the judge intends to comply.]