The thread previously known as 'Lerner presumably'

[Max B. Sawicky]

FWIW, I noticed Nathan's sig and thought it odd since he
doesn't usually sign that way, but I didn't take it to
mean anything about the NLG, national or NYC.  I would
ordinarily doubt any off the cuff statement would
represent any NLG body, least of all one from the
rugged individualist NN.

mbs

This implies*, that while his views do not reflect those of the NLG
national leadership they _do_ reflect those of the NYC NLG leadership -
expecially given that he had identified himself as "Nathan Newman Vice
President, NYC National Lawyers Guild."

Upset were that to be the case, I forwarded the post as signed in the
fashion set out above to the President of the NYC NLG and inquired if
that implication were correct. I am very glad it is not.

john mage

  *at least since 1311, during the reign of the great gay Edward II
(_Thurmeton_ v. _Pouterel_ 63 Selden Soc. 216 at p.220). To spell it
out, by qualifying a negative ("...do not reflect those of the NLG
_national leadership_") to limit it to one of several
possibilities makes the negative "pregnant" with the affirmation of the
excluded option.