[blml] When is a good place to start. [was:Re: law 65A/Wayne etc.]

[Wayne Burrows]

On 24/10/2007, gesta at tiscali.co.uk <gesta at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
> [also grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
> *********************************************
> "Usage:   Care should be taken so that 'when' and 'where' refer
> explicitly to time or place, and are not used loosely to substitute
> for 'in which' after the verb 'to be': paralysis is a condition 'in
> which' (not 'when' or 'where') parts of the body cannot be moved."
> I do not have a word count of the new laws (Anna, do you?) but
> I am impressed how much time we can spend upon analysing the
> import of 'when'. It seems we must have material enough in the 2007
> laws to occupy blml for the whole of the coming decade.  Another
> target met.
>                                 ~ Grattan ~   +=+
> p.s. oh, by the way, the intent of 'when' could be the third one
> cited in the dictionary in front of me: 'at a time at which'. That
> would not be a point in time but a period commencing when
> specified conditions are met.

I guess sometime next Friday will be ok to turn down my trick then.

As Nigel points out their needs to be some urgency since otherwise it
would be ok to leave my cards faced on the table and only turn them
all down at the end of the hand.

Wayne