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"