Re: Laws 2017: erroneous & mistaken
"Mike Amos" <[email protected]>
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I haven’t looked it up yet, but I think Gordon is on the right track - answers can be erroneous or mistaken but we don’t say that a person is erroneous = we say that they were mistaken. Mike From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 12 April 2017 17:24 To: Pekka Viitasalo <[email protected]>; Bridge Laws Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BLML] Laws 2017: erroneous & mistaken Interesting question to which you may get a different answer from a linguist or a lawyer, but it seems to me that in the context of the laws of bridge they mean the same thing. The differences between them are so subtle that I found it hard to think of any. I don’t think it would be correct to say “I was erroneous” but it would be fine to say “I was mistaken”. By contrast one could say “his answer was mistaken” or “his answer was erroneous”. Now let’s see if any linguists tell me I’m mistaken! Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Pekka Viitasalo <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 12 April 2017 16:49 To: Bridge Laws Discussion List <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [BLML] Laws 2017: erroneous & mistaken Hi all, Are the words erroneous and mistaken used as synonyms in the laws or are there some nuances between those two? Erroneus appears in Law 20 F and in index pointing to Law 46B. Best regards, Pekka Viitasalo -- http://www.iki.fi/~piv "It is more complicated than you think." - RFC1925 _______________________________________________ Blml mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml _______________________________________________ Blml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml