[blml] Tie me kangaroo court, sport [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"... but it really doesn't matter, it 
really doesn't matter..."   - W.S.Gilbert
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Reppert" <ereppert at rochester.rr.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Tie me kangaroo court, sport 
                                        [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]



> 
>> Richard Hills (3rd October 2006):
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Part of the problem is that the 1997, 1987 and 1975 
>>> Lawbooks were patchwork evolutions, not fundamental 
>>> redrafts,
> 
> ISTR reading a while ago that the drafting committee had 
> decided  *not* to do a fundamental redraft this time 'round. 
> <shrug>
> 
+=+ But only after working on such a redraft for a couple of 
years. The immortal relics of the exercise are interred in several 
parts of the world, and I may cherish the memory that for much 
of the establishment I was too revolutionary in my ambition, and 
old age, to rework the book. 
        Yet there is something gained. The exercise freshened the 
mind and it has been a little easier to persuade people that the 
1997 laws did not express clearly some of the practices and 
interpretations, the hitherto 'knowledge', and the language has 
been tightened in places, the ground more explicitly covered. 
English is a difficult language, simple English even more so, and 
when mingled with the English of other hemispheres - west and 
south of its homeland - it is a multicoloured langauge that can 
baffle even its native speakers as well as those for whom it is a 
foreign language.
        But we are close now to a resolution and, after Shanghai 
dear Readers, you may judge for yourselves what progress, if 
any, has been made - and what is, in your sad eyes, retrograde. 
                                  ~ Grattan ~   +=+
I am now departing for the airport - well in a couple of hours. 
This machine remains closed sine die.