On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 11:53 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:58 AM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we wouldn't say that he had > > gained the privilege of driving his car; nor would we in the more > > bizarre situation that he became allowed to do it but remained unable > > to. > > What if the teenager got eir driver's license by couldn't find eir > keys. E'd have the privilege of driving eir car (e MAY drive it), but > not the mechanism for doing so (e CANNOT drive it as it won't start). > > Of course, R2148 says a foreign nomic "may" grant powers and > privileges. It doesn't provide a mechanism for granting them, so > precedent indicates that no such machanism can be assumed to exist.
Surely the foreign nomic provides the mechanism? Lowercase "may" seems to have a special place in the rules, used in all sorts of strange places; maybe it needs a definition of its own. -- ais523
