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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Nov 19, 2014 11:47AM

I had two first thoughts. Well, reactions - I haven't looked into it enough to have thoughts.

The first was that they are descriptions, and a description is only sometimes suitable as an alternative.

The second was that I disagreed with the categorization of their examples. Their first example of "Describes without errors" actually had an error - that's a man riding a dirt bike on a track, not a road. I don't agree with their self-assessed level of success.

But perhaps I'm being too harsh, and I will try to keep Samuel Johnson's words in mind: "A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse - not a remarkable mathematician."

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