Re: Motivation: Gerund or Infinitive

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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>
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>  The basic problem is with the English language, which often uses the
> same word as a noun and a verb. Why don't we pick a language that doesn't
> do that? ;-) –Bill Kasdorf
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> *From:* Benjamin Young [mailto:bigbluehat@hypothes.is]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 04, 2015 4:49 PM
> *To:* Denenberg, Ray
> *Cc:* Web Annotation
> *Subject:* Re: Motivation: Gerund or Infinitive
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> Well... :)
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> It would always technically *be* a verb, but I'm not sure it'd be clear in
> this JSON.
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> ```
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> {
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>   "motivatedBy": "comment"
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> }
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> ```
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> Really, though, the "to comment" form could be made as a custom set of
> SKOS Concepts for using the infinitive form:
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/#extending-motivations
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> But I'd want to see that available only as an extension and not mixed into
> the `oa` namespace as that would cause yet more confusion, I'm afraid.
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> Anyway. :) Saying the same thing different ways, so I'll let others weigh
> in.
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> Laters,
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> Benjamin
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> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:
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> From: Benjamin Young [mailto:bigbluehat@hypothes.is]
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> *> oa:motivatedBy comment*
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> *> has potentially different meaning than*
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> *> oa:motivatedBy commenting*
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> *> The first (to me at least) implies that my annotation was motivated by
> a prior*
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> *> comment *
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> Only if you take “comment” to be a noun, but the proposal is to use the
> infinitive form (where the "to" part of the infinitive is implied) thus it
> would always be understood to be a verb.
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> So:
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> oa:motivatedBy  "comment"
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> " motivatedBy   to comment"
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> Admittedly this doesn't sound as good as if the predicate were (as we
> thought yesterday) oa:motivation.  in that case it would say:
> "motivation: to comment".   Actually I’d like to change to predicate (back)
> to oa:motivation.
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> Ray
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