[arg_discuss] whitepaper:wiki, next version

[Adam Martin]

On 12/12/06, despain at quantumcontent.com <despain at quantumcontent.com> wrote:

>

> Also, American English and British English have some funny differences

> nobody notices till they're written down. Did we mix usage in this paper?


The approach taken was to keep each author's own language and phrasing
as original as possible. The sections I edited I did ask for rewrites
of many individual phrases to improve clarity or to iron out bias - or
just to explain terms that wouldn't be familiar with the typical
reader - but the rewrites were done by the authors themselves.

All spelling was allowed in both US and UK variants without question,
unless it stuck out obviously (e.g. using different variants in the
same paragraph or sentence!).


> Which brings up the question of what is this list anyway? And what should

> we do with it? I think that's a great topic worthy of its own thread. I

> don't know who's still subscribed, and I don't know why there's not more

> participation. I don't think we can blame it entirely on leadership or the

> lack thereof. We are not sheep. This mailing list is whatever we want it

> to be. But I think I'll start a new thread on that topic.


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Adam