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Re: Repetition Rules Change?

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Dean BedfordFeb 5, 2007
 

 
On Tuesday, February 6, 2007, at 05:07 AM, wednesday.keller wrote:

> When did the rules about repetition change? I was listening to to 4x38
> (6 October 1969)
> and during the round about the 'advantages of not being on the
> telephone' several
> challenges are made for other peoples repetition. i.e. Clement says
> month, someone else
> says month, and the third person challenges (successfully) for the
> repetition of month.
>
> Furthermore dieting, the next subject on the card, was also challenged
> for repetition when
> people said it again.
>
> So when did the rules change to only cover your own words rather than
> everybody's words
> in a round?
>
> Likewise when did you become able to repeat the words on the card?

No specific dates - I think rules and interpretations were somewhat
refined over the first year or two. They also gave away the idea of
having specific rounds where you couldn't say "the" and so on... But as
has already been noted here, Nicholas has always had a somewhat flexible
interpretation of the rules.

 
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