[WikiEN-l] More slogans

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Aug 25 18:12:39 UTC 2006


Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 8/25/06, David Gerard <dgerard at 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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