On Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > 080608 Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> >> We try to translate the GMN to our local language,
> >> but I found it was really hard to understand the section
> >> of "Council Meeting Summary", for example:
> >> "The appeals will *not* be decided then
> >> -- it's about figuring out the validity and the process."
> >> ----what "validity" and "process" is?
> >
> > "What we should be doing in all cases & how it would be best to do it,
> > rather than deciding what to do about this particular person,
> > who has been disciplined & has appealed to have his case reviewed" :
> > it is poorly expressed & not clear even to a native speaker (wry smile).
>
> but I can't still see the relation between your reply and my question?
> From the paragraph:
>
> Enforced retirement: After 2.5 hours on the previous topics, people
> had to go to sleep and jokey's computer broke. Instead of waiting till
> the next regular meeting, because of its urgency, we scheduled a
> special session next week at the same time. The appeals will *not* be
> decided then -- it's about figuring out the validity and the process.
>
> I know the meeting once stopped and was rescheduled, and then ?
It is all about 'how to deal with appeals'
and
'are the appeals even valid'
It got 'rescheduled' and then nothing happened, that is why we have elections
of a new council soon .
>
> >> "105 minutes were closed and 57 were open" ----- what is "57"?
> >
> > Minutes : what else ?!
>
> You mean the new meeting continued 105 minutes and then 57 minutes again?
no. That 105 minutes were 'closed' - only council members could speek. And 57
minutes were 'open' - everybody was allowed to speek.
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