[blml] What does "specified" mean in Law 29C?

[Jerry Fusselman]

Ed Reppert writes
>
> Any forcing call is, by the definition of "forcing" not an offer to
> play in the denomination named or last named.
>

You're confusing "denomination" with "contract".  The auction 1S-P-2H
can be forcing and an offer to play the contract in the denomination
of hearts.  So forcing calls can indeed be offers to play in the
denomination named.

> Not all forcing bids are artificial, though, so "forcing" and
> "artificial" are not synonyms.
>

True.

> A call cannot be both artificial and not artificial. Can it be neither?

No.  The definition of "not artificial" is "not "artificial"".

> A call cannot be both natural and not natural. Can it be neither?
>

Natural is not defined in laws, though it still appears, undefined, in
a footnote to law 75.  But the answer is still no.

> Can a call be both natural and artificial?
>

The common usage is that natural means not artificial, so by common usage, no.

Jerry Fusselman