Re: review of LCC documents as of 26 December 2002

From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
Subject: Re: review of LCC documents as of 26 December 2002
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:57:41 +0000

[...]

> There is one statement in your review that I just don't understand:
> [[
> The list of uses in the motivations section has just about the best example
> of non-parallel construction that I have ever seen.
> ]]
> I think this may be a stylistic matter, but I can't be sure.

Yes, stylistic.  In general, if you say 

     oijo  oijoi ooij o oijoj ojio 
	- blah1
	- blah2
	- blah3
	- blah4

the blahi should belong to the same syntactic category.   The list of
motivations uses several different syntactic categories, and thus should be
changed.

> #g

peter

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