comex wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: >> a) "X is/are Y" >> b) "Y is/are known as X" > > "Any biological organism that is generally capable ... is a person" > might fall under this. Probably doesn't, but there are other > situations where phrasing clearly not intended to be a definition > would count as such under this rule. e.g. "A registered partnership > is a person" in a rule about partnerships.
That's why the general patterns are only backed by SHOULD: so that casual grammar can be interpreted using common sense. Compare the lower-case versions of the MMI terms (the upper-case versions are assumed to have been intentionally matched to MMI's definitions).
