<b>How about this:

The pitcher starts with the right foot in contact with the pitching plate, the left foot is considerably outside the pitching plate prior to the start of the pitch. As the pitch is delivered, the left foot must remain outside the pitching plate. This is a legal pitch.

Is this more clear and gets rid of any PC stuff??</b>

This trick does work here. Good thinking. Not really any difference in clarity. Unfortunately, however, the device of using "the" to get around a possessive pronoun doesn't work well in most contexts.

But I look at it this way: you could change everything in the language to suit the current demands of the p.c. police, and tomorrow they would find more things to complain about. I wonder whether I will live to see the word <i>goodbye</i> become a no-no, since when the p.c. police learn what it means, they will claim that it is offensive to atheists. After, all most of say this contraction of <i>God be with ye</i> several times a day.

Already some kid lodged a complaint with her school because her teacher said, "Bless you," after the kid sneezed.


[Edited by greymule on Feb 14th, 2005 at 11:21 PM]

Actually, American Sign Language is an unique language with no connections to English whatsoever. Its roots are in French Sign Language, which doesn't even resemble spoken French.

However, Mike, you are right, ASL can be confusing because it's grammatical rules are totally different from English. My students in the interpreter training program that I teach ASL in struggle with trying to figure out the grammatical rules of both ASL AND English.

I can't read this at all and get past "as they deliver (plural verb) and steps (singular verb - same subject)". Sounds like something my 1st grader would be embarrassed to turn in.

mcrowder,

Would you imagine getting a paper like that from a community college student? Just after I posted my earlier post, I got into grading some papers from my Deaf Culture class that I teach and got a headache that I normally only get when I read the ASA rulebook!!!!

If I got a paper from a college student like this, THEY would GETS a bad grade.

Heck, I go "tilt" well before that: "their right foot"???

A communal right foot?
A three-legged race?

Choose one: "their right feet" or "his/her right foot"

Is there an answer sheet also on the web or available for downloading /emailing?

[Edited by wadeintothem on Feb 18th, 2005 at 01:24 AM]

You're kidding, right?

I dont know why you would ask if I am kidding unless you think I am asking for the answers. I was wondering if the bubble form you write the answers on to submit to your UIC is available. I never downloaded the test before, I always get it from my UIC and he gives an answer sheet to put the answers on.

The blank answer sheets are still available from your UIC, as they have always been previously. The test is downloadable this year because the tests sent to the UIC's (as always doen previously) had some major printing errors; someone accidently replaced questions 51-100 with the 2004 questions. Rather than the time lag and expense in reprinting and redistributing, it was decided the most efficient method of distribution would be to make it available on the website.

You should still get your new rulebook, bat ring, and answer sheet, as in previous years, from your UIC.

In Mike's defense, I am sure he thought you meant a completed answer sheet, as was requested a while back for the Fed test. Everyone pretty much took that to task; if you were asking the same question for ASA ...........

OK - thanks.