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Confirmation and information state

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Confirmation and information state

An original written communication exercise provides נא לאשר את המועד החדש. A sender asks the recipient to confirm the new scheduled time. An editor changes the summary to say that the recipient accepted the appointment, although no reply is supplied. Another learner invents a cancellation. The task is to explain what the actual request establishes and what remains unknown. There is no audio recording, official booking policy or statutory deadline in this exercise. A suitable mediation response should convey the sender’s purpose to the intended audience without making the information more definite than the source. Further productive practice could require an original Hebrew reply asking for a missing detail, while keeping clear that this reply would be newly composed rather than a quotation from the unseen recipient.

1. What does the supplied Hebrew request?

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It asks for confirmation of the new scheduled time. It is a request for a response, not evidence that confirmation already occurred.

2. What should a faithful summary leave unresolved?

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Whether the recipient agreed, objected or had not yet replied remains unresolved. Acceptance or cancellation should not be invented.