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From: "Excalibur131" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence Help - Witness Memo v 7.02
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:53:44 -0400
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Well, I was gonna and then I wasn't gonna and now I'm gonna give a little
thought on this. <vbg>

I would use Roles and build the sentence to be used in the WM for each Role.
Then I would tie the entire package together in the Principle statement
using Conditionals. Once the first Role for theWM is built, the others will
go quickly and easily -- only a word or two will change for most of them.

When building the WM sentence, I would include Male and Female versions.
This would also save me from having to worry with whether a pronoun is going
to be used or not. Since you will (might) have more than one person doing
the same thing (e.g., R:SurvivedBy), I would build more than one Role doing
the same thing and number them (e.g., R:SurvivedBy1, R:SurvivedBy2,
R:SurvivedBy3, etc.). Assign each person doing the same thing to a different
numbered Role.

When building the Principle sentence, I would build it along the same lines
that some (many?) of us use for recording Census people. Sure, the Principle
sentence "looks" long (and it probably is), but building it goes very fast
since you already know the various Witness Roles.

It's easier for me to do it than to explain it. <vbg>
Tom
Eastern Shore & More
http://easternshoremore.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "DE Neilley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence Help - Witness Memo v 7.02


> Actually, I wanted to stamp my feet and pout and shriek "WHY?" Why can't I
> do this? I should be able to! Because I want to!" But I thought that it
> might seem just a *little *childish. Of course, if the Sentence and
> Toolbar
> Goddess would like to cast her thunderbolts to tickle up the WG trolls
> (<vbg>) to make this a possibility, I won't stand in her way!
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:04 PM, <> wrote:
>
>> Paging the Sentence and ToolBar Goddess!
>>
>> *GRIN*
>>
>> --
>> The Verminator
>> "The path to citizenship begins with LEGAL immigration"
>>
>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: Terry Reigel <>
>> >
>> > You can't refer to the WM in the sentence for anyone but that witness.
>> > I
>> don't
>> > think there is any simple way to do this. You could create a series of
>> "not
>> > survived by" and "survived by" roles, like "survived by son", "survived
>> by
>> > sons," "survived by grandson," etc., etc. and build a giant, complex
>> sentence
>> > for the Principal that tries to weave them all together. I don't
>> > believe
>> there
>> > is any way to get all the possible combinations to produce any
>> > reasonable
>> > output.
>> >
>> >
>> > Terry Reigel

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