On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:23:50PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Sunday, Aug 10, 2003, at 09:01 US/Eastern, Nick Phillips wrote: > >Or if you come from a country where they speak proper English, "tabled" > >means something like "proposed for discussion"... > > Hmmm, not what my copy of Robert's Rules of Order says. But, > considering that, I'll try and use alternate phrasings like "delayed" While I disagree with Nick Phillips's chauvinistic characterization of non-rhotic dialects of English as the only "proper ones", he makes a valid point regarding usage. The SPI Board of Directors, which has both American and British members, uses the term "shelved" for this purpose, which is unambiguous for everyone. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_British_and_American_English -- G. Branden Robinson | The basic test of freedom is Debian GNU/Linux | perhaps less in what we are free to branden@debian.org | do than in what we are free not to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | do. -- Eric Hoffer
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