On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 04:00:26 -0400, Dwight Stewart wrote:

"Phil Kane" wrote:

That's called an "Administration" in ITU-speak.


Phil, why can't lawyers like yourself use everyday, plain, English?
Reading the Code of Federal Regulations or US Code (or whatever) is like
reading something written in another language. I think it's a conspiracy to
confuse everyone else in an effort to insure work for lawyers.

The famous story about Arturo Toscanini, at the time the conductor
of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra:

Most professional orchestras make certain changes and cuts in
traditional (i.e. "warhorse") compositions and thusly use scores
which have lots of hand-written "modifications" for that purpose.

The tale is told of a member of the orchestra who went to The
Maestro and said "Mister Toscanini, my score for Beethoven's Eighth
Symphony is so marked up I can't read it. I have purchased a brand
new score - can you show me EXACTLY what changes and cuts you want
in it?" Toscanini replied: "let me see the old score". He looked at
it and said: "there's nothing wrong with this one except that you
need to add another cut -here- and make a change -there-".

(With thanks to the late Meredeth Willson as told in his book
"And There I Stood With My Piccolo")

There's nothing wrong with the language of the USC or CFR if (1) one
has a good command of American English and (2) one has a good
command of law and (3) one understands what the statute/regulation
was intended for in the first place.

The same thing is true of the writings of any technical profession.
I have always felt that an understanding of FCC regulations is as
important to ham radio as an understanding of the technology being
used by the ham.


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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane