"Mr. Travel" wrote:
>
> Greg Procter wrote:
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> > "Mr. Travel" wrote:
> >
> >>Greg Procter wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Yes, I've done that - you're effectively saying that a person can be a
> >>>permanent resident in two countries at once. That's obviously not
> >>>possible, and it has nothing at all to any distinction between the term
> >>>and the words.
> >>
> >>It has to do with how countries define the term, not the dictionary.
> >
> >
> > If it's a "term" then you write it capitalized or within quotation
> > marks, so that it is not confused with the dictionary meaning. This
> > isn't rocket science.
> > You could alternatively write "(has) permanent ressidence status".
>
> You sometimes write the abbreviation for NZ in lower case.
I probably had a tired finger that day, or I was using the other hand to
keep the cat off the keyboard - did you get all confused between the
nation and the Urdu word for 'golden dung beetle'? |