Subject: [hrpc] May I express what I am being troubled by?

From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:01:35 +0000

I find myself thinking about:

1) a grammatical construct using the words “you”, “are”, “a”, “terrible”, and “person”,

2) the sentence “you are a terrible person”, and

3) an instance of the use of that sentence, with an identified speaker and an identified subject of the word “you”.

Those are clearly three different things. This comes back to the discussion we had in the room an hour ago, about the protocol, the intention of the protocol designer, and the intention of the user of the protocol.

I’m concerned about the discussion confusing the three, and would appreciate them being kept separate.