[Discuss] Lightning bolt raising confusion

[Philippe Veillette]

Chuong Huynh wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Philippe Veillette 
> <veilphil at interlinx.qc.ca <mailto:veilphil at interlinx.qc.ca>> wrote:
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>     I am sending it as I intended to do so and he unregistered from the
>     mailing list a while ago.  When he speak about General and Marshal
>     being
>     the same person, I think to remember seeing a news messages saying
>     that
>     it could be done, but not fully sure, so he could be wrong on that
>     small
>     detail, which make the lightning bolt even harder to understand.
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> I dont think that is the issue, General and SiC being the same person 
> is fine. I have an issue with the continue to post orders part, the 
> word continue implies hes been doing it before. Also the fact that he 
> was announced as SiC after the Marshal was wounded, why was he not SiC 
> before that. Why was he not SiC before that, who was the SiC originally.
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First, don't general make the order even if it's sent by the marshal?  
So to say that he would continue could simply means that he will 
continue to do its work as in the recent past. 

Who was the SiC is the past general as an election changed the general 
at the start of the month.