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This construction is called a "false range" in English. https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Commas/faq0062.html https://www.chicagomanua
by nlewycky 2y ago
This construction is called a "false range" in English.
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Commas/faq0062.html https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/C...
https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/out_of_range.php https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/out_of_range.php
The wording change from Permissible to Possible and making it non-normative was an attempt to clarify that the list of behaviors that follows is a false range and not an exhaustive list.
It's a submarine change because in the eyes of the committee, this is not a change, merely a clarification of what it already said, to guard against ongoing misinterpretation.