Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/25/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Your patent terse one-liner style fails to make it clear how this contradicts "last word on nothing, first word on everything", assuming that is indeed what you are applying. (Perhaps it's time to make the jump to two-liners ...)
There seems to be mild disagreement about whether "first word" means "chronologically the first to report" or "the inital source one consults". I'm thinking the second is more likely.
That's the way I read it too. Would changing "word" to "source" help?
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