Bills Blog - Champs info 04/14/11

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

The actual words in the volunteer document:

o Safety glasses must be worn at all times in the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics pit areas and the field areas on the Dome floor.

I would interpret this to only mean that their are FRC, FTC, and Aerial Robotics pit areas.... and there are field areas on the Dome floor.

I don't think you can infer that the Aerial Robotics pit areas are in the field areas...

One of the many sources of ambiguity in English is the domain of conjunctions, leading to multiple parses of the sentence you quote above.
For example, is it:
[[Safety glasses must be worn at all times in] [the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics] [[pit areas] and [the field areas on the Dome floor.]]]
or
[[Safety glasses must be worn at all times in] [[the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics] [pit areas]] and [the field areas on the Dome floor.]]

But I agree "implies" is a little too strong in my earlier post, so I'm editing it to say "may imply"

[BigJ]

I hope my aerial pit isn't too high up, I don't want to get hurt.

Wait...

You mean?..

Darn conjunctions!

[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by MikeE

One of the many sources of ambiguity in English is the domain of conjunctions, leading to multiple parses of the sentence you quote above.
For example, is it:
[[Safety glasses must be worn at all times in] [the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics] [[pit areas] and [the field areas on the Dome floor.]]]
or
[[Safety glasses must be worn at all times in] [[the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics] [pit areas]] and [the field areas on the Dome floor.]]

But I agree "implies" is a little too strong in my earlier post, so I'm editing it to say "may imply"

You may be right... Upon further review.... I think the better interpretation is that any OTHER field areas on the Dome floor don't need safety glasses... which would be FLL... I don't think that the FLL game tables at CMP have ever required safety glasses...

This would certainly imply that Aerial Robotics has field space on the Dome floor...

I think you may be correct in your original implication....

Of course I am just implying that from your original post...