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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 3810441" data-attributes="member: 7884">That's an unusual interpretation of written English.  Sentences in the same paragraph deal with the same subject matter, and are intended by their author to be read together in connection with that subject.  If the author did not want two sentences to be read as connected elements of a whole, he or she would have written them not merely as separate sentences, but as separate paragraphs.Ask yourself - what is the natural, ordinary meaning of the text, not some artificially contrived interpretation intended to prove a point.  Consider the following statement:"I saw a bus yesterday.  It was yellow."What colour was the bus I saw yesterday?  By the interpretation advanced above, who knows?  The two sentences are unrelated, and the subject of the second sentence is "it", not "the bus I saw yesterday".This kind of interpretation of the RAW irks me greatly, because it attempts to divorce the text of the rules from their context.  It is a 19th-Century style of legislative interpretation which is viewed with disfavour and contempt by modern jurists.  I never interpret the rules simply by reference to the text in a vacuum.Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>