Re: Kalusa: War of the Words

One thing that makes the ranking a bit interesting is that there
is no way to object to part of the sentence.  So, for example, say
someone has written a long sentence with words that everyone
agrees on, but glosses it in the past tense and fails to use "dun".
The result is ungrammatical (at least, according to popular
demand), but only because of the omission of "dun"; not because
of anything else in the sentence.

Additionally (and this has happened more often than not when
I'm voting), say a sentence has been used that has one "error"
(e.g., the "dun" omission described above), but also uses one of
two disputed words--say x and y both mean "bird", and the
author uses "x".  Now say the voter wants to promote the usage
of "x" over "y".  Because this sentence has a simple error like
the "dun" omission, one is almost obligated to mark it as bad,
but then it *looks* as if one is favoring y over x, when exactly
the opposite is the case.  Any ideas about this?

-David
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