"Considering that I wasn't stating my opinion and and defining my personal logic in an attempt to persuade, I would have to say "No" to your question. I don't view this as a great debate with a winner and loser."
Dear Sandra, Sorry if I came down too hard in that last post. I'm using the term argument in the sense of a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true. You wrote: "Would you agree that in the English language words which are are capitalized enable the reader to distinguish, in context, the significance of the capitalization. For instance: God or god." "God" is used a proper noun when it is capitalized if that is what you mean. But I'm not sure what you mean by enabling 'the reader to distinguish, in context, the significance of the capitalization.' "I trust the Guardian intended to convey the distinctive nature of the title when capitalizing *Trustees*." Okay, but as I mentioned the only time he capitalized it was in that passage from the Iqan which does not refer to the members of any House of Justice, local or universal. The other passages you cited are not translated by the Guardian. The other cases are ones where he uses it in caps as a title in GPB and the World Order letters. I don't see any consistency in where he uses or doesn't use caps in conection with those texts. In any case, my point, is that you are ascribing a meaning to those texts which doesn't follow either from the rules of English grammar or from the Guardian's own usage. I don't see him adopting a convention of capitalizing references to the Universal House of Justice. warmest, Susan __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
