George Herbert wrote:
On 7/3/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Voting will be by secret ballot (the names of voters and the
candidates supported will not be posted on-wiki)."
Could the committee correct that statement?
The statement is correct, although easy to misunderstand. Names *and*
candidates supported are not listed anywhere, just names. In jargon,
the "and" binds more tightly than the "will not be".
"Has
to be parsed by an grammar lawyer to be read and interpreted
properly" == "A misstatement"
I don't know that it takes a
lawyer to figure this out, but there's a
much simpler interpretation that helps make the statement more literally
correct. The posting of the voter list is not taking place "on-wiki"
since we're using the services of an outside party to host the voting
process.
The information put forwards has to be both literally
correct *and*
interpreted by any casual reader to have the correct information
content, or it's wrong...
I agree about the potential for confusion, and my
previous observation
notwithstanding, the statement should still be improved.
--Michael Snow