I CFJ: "Rule 2713 imposes a requirement for the Numerator to grant
players their scored numbers in a timely fashion"
Arguments:
This is just standard quibbling over vocabulary. This is the only
instance in the rules where "timely manner" is used instead of "timely
fashion" -- is there a difference?
On the one hand, the phrases in their natural definitions are
synonymous. On the one hand, "in a timely fashion" is defined by 1023 in
quotes, implying exactness of wording.
Evidence:
Rule 2713/1 (Power=1.0)
Scoring Numbers
...
Whenever a player scores a number as described in this rule, the
Numerator CAN once, and SHALL in a timely manner, grant that
player (and, if the number was scored due to the adoption of a
proposal, also a randomly chosen other player who voted FOR on a
referendum to adopt that proposal) a number card for each digit in
that number, whose type is that digit.
...
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Rule 1023/43 (Power=2)
Agoran Time
The following terms are defined:
1. The phrase "in a timely fashion" means "within 7 days". This
time period is set when the requirement is created (i.e. X days
before the limit ends). A requirement to perform an action at
an exact instant (e.g. "when X, Y SHALL Z"), but not "in the
same message", is instead interpreted as a requirement to
perform that action in a timely fashion after that instant. ...
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Trigon
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