On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Sean Hunt <scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> > wrote: >> On 09/17/2010 01:05 PM, com...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Gratuitous: The interpretation suggested by the caller is absurd. >> >> Would you prefer the interpretation that the list published in the message >> was rearranged to match the List of Succession. > > The meaning of "A becomes B" can depend on context. Although "A > becomes B" usually means "A is set to B", if A is naturally immutable > and B is naturally mutable, the obviously correct reading is "B is set > to A". >
Gratuitous: If I say "omd becomes the Speaker", I don't mean that omd is now Keba.
