[Foundation-l] Chapters

[Jimmy Wales]

You are right!  TYPO!

On 8/10/11 6:14 PM, Delphine Ménard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Jimmy Wales<jwales at wikia-inc.com>  wrote:
>> It would be, if that's what it were about.  But I can say with
>> confidence that at the board meeting, no one spoke about any ideas even
>> remotely similar to this, and I can't think of a single board member who
>> disagrees one bit with the idea that chapters should be directed or
>> controlled in a top-down fashion as "franchises" or anything similar.
>
> OK, I've read this sentence five times now, and this is what I read:
>
> "Board members agree that chapters should be directed or controlled in
> a top-down fashion as franchises"
>
> I think there is a double negative here that is saying the opposite of
> what you meant to say.
>
> Should not the sentence be:
> "I can't think of a single board member who *agrees* one bit with the
> idea that chapters should be directed or controlled in a top-down
> fashion as "franchises" or anything similar?
>
> Or has my English played a trick on me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Delphine
>
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