RE: [$ieee-1850] Unclear sentence in P&P

Johan,

I agree that the grammar is poor in this sentence. Personally I prefer to stick to the singular wherever possible, as in your second proposed rewriting:

"The Chair and Vice-Chair shall be an IEEE member of any grade, and also an individual IEEE-SA member, and must also be a Designated Representative (DR) of an entity that is a corporate IEEE-SA member."

except that I would recommend tightening it up just a bit further:

"The Chair and Vice-Chair shall each be an IEEE member of any grade, and also an individual IEEE-SA member, and also a Designated Representative (DR) of an entity that is a corporate IEEE-SA member."

Would you agree? Does anyone disagree with this? If this is acceptable, I'll motion to adopt the above sentence in place of the current sentence in the P&Ps.

Regards,

Erich

| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-ieee-1850@eda.org
| [mailto:owner-ieee-1850@eda.org] On Behalf Of Johan Mårtensson
| Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 4:02 AM
| To: ieee-1850@eda.org
| Subject: [$ieee-1850] Unclear sentence in P&P
|
| Hi,
|
| I know we already ratified the P&P, but still I would like to
| suggest a rewriting of the second sentence of section 6:
|
| "The Chair and Vice-Chair shall be IEEE members of any grade,
| individual IEEE-SA members, and must also be a Designated
| Representative (DR) of an entity that is a corporate IEEE-SA member."
|
| There is a strange shift from the plural into the singular at
| the second comma, and also I don't think it is made fully
| clear that the officers must both be individual IEEE members
| and in addition to that individual IEEE-SA members (if indeed
| that is what is meant). So I suggest either of the following
| wordings:
|
|
| "The Chair and Vice-Chair shall be IEEE members of any grade,
| and also individual IEEE-SA members, and must also be
| Designated Representatives
| (DR) of some entity that is a corporate IEEE-SA member."
|
| or
|
| "The Chair and Vice-Chair shall be an IEEE member of any
| grade, and also an individual IEEE-SA member, and must also
| be a Designated Representative (DR) of an entity that is a
| corporate IEEE-SA member."
|
| Best Regards, Johan M
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Received on Wed Oct 6 09:35:33 2004