It’s definitely confusing to to point of near meaninglessness, and I’m not sure it’s really necessary to specify person, corporate body, etc. in the relationship
itself. (No other relators that I know of do this.)
For the life of me I cannot figure out what’s wrong with
“Founder:” (connecting corp. body to person/corp. body/family that founded the entity)
“Founded:” (connecting person/corp. body/family to corp. body they founded)
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 8:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] "founded corporate body" now three wordy RDs
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Moore, Richard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
The phrase “Founded corporate body of person” is (one assumes) clear to whoever devised it, is obscure to you and me, and will be meaningless to a user.
It has the look of a phrase mechanically translated and rearranged from a different language, invoking a rule that in English an adjective must
precede the noun it modifies, though here it functions as a past participle, and with a preposition translated "of" that would be properly translated as "by". Might this have been the process?
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