Do you agree that some cards with alternative uses have a sentence common to both alternative and primary effect?Bandobras Took wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:09 pm @ Konrad: The point is simply that the use of paragraphs is arbitrary. There is no reason to assume deliberate function in one instance of paragraphing when most if not all others show no sign of such.
If so, how the sentence is usually expressed/presented?
What is a reason of denying that such expression/presentation serves such function? Fact that it (line break/indent) is also used in cards that does not have alternative use? Fact that two cards that have alternative uses and apparently have common sentence do not use such expression/presentation?
I have seen malformed ZIP, EPUB, PNG files? Do they prove that ZIP, EPUB, PNG standards do not exist?
If not a line break/indent what indicates that last sentence is common to both alternative and primary effect? Impression?
Children use grammar rules before they go to school, not knowing that they use grammar rules and even not knowing that there is such thing as grammar. Some people break grammar rules, knowing or not knowing that grammar rules exist.
For me it looks like ICE, even if not deliberately, was using some convention albeit not in 100% systematically.
The whole topic may be leaved as is (or as it was, unnoticed, not disputed), or it may be base for figuring out what convention of expressing post/common effect is used, texts of which cards are deviation from the convention (and should be corrected), and/or which cards actually do not use common effect despite how they look.