On 2/5/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Except there are no rules whatsoever saying that names can be
set or changed by announcement. There are no rules anywhere saying
how names can be changed. But we accept that names can be legally
changed by the announcement from the named party. That's far from
obvious: not many legal systems would allow that!
For what it's worth, Judge Steve used the word "choose" to describe
how a nickname is set in eir judgement of CFJ 1361:
It is my view that, for the purposes of R559, a nickname is a
name that a Player chooses for emself, that can be reliably used
to pick em out in the full range of Agoran contexts. On this
view, arbitrary designations by other Players, while they make
succeed in referring to another Player, do not consitute
nicknames of those Players.
I don't see how this can be taken to support your deemonic theory.
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C. Maud Image (Michael Slone)
