On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Keba <ag...@kebay.org> wrote: > Warrigal wrote: >> I suggest adding a clause like this: "If there is ambiguity about the >> number of words in a proposal (for example, if there are hyphenated >> words), it SHOULD be interpreted as containing exactly 1337 words, if >> possible." Thus, people don't have to avoid ambiguous things like >> "bilge-pump" in their proposals; they can just include them and it >> will be good enough. > > Or we define a word as everything between two whitespaces except > whitespecaes.
If we did that, this sentence would be twenty words long. —Unicoder Tanner L. Swett