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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Sentence Variable [W]
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 23:51:57 -0500


Wendell H. Wilcox wrote:
>It appears from my experimenting that [W] refers to [P] (the current
principle)
>in principle sentences and to the current witness in witness sentences. [WO]
>refers to the individuals who are not a principle in principle sentences
and to
>witnesses other than [W] for witness sentences. Thus for my purposes, I will
>treat [W] as the current individual, [P] and [PO] as the principle parties and
>[WO] as the witness parties. Seems to me that [W] should have been named
>something different???
>
>I didn't expect a principle to be considered a witness which is where I got
>into trouble. I expected it to be more like participants and spectators
where a
>person is one or the other but not both at the same time.

For now, all I can suggest is to not use [W] in the Tag Sentence.
Naturally, if your Witnesses play different roles, this makes it hard to
get the Tag Sentence Structure as you want it. For now, it may be
necessary to just enter the person's name in the Tag Sentence where you
want it.

The situation has been discussed here in the past. Wholly Genes has been
requested to provide for ways to select among Witnesses for sentence
construction. All we can do now is wait for a future version that will
expand on sentence structure in regard to Witnesses and/or Principals.

Hope this helps -


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