On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 08:53 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote:
> ais523 wrote:
> 
> > This breaks a huge number of rules. "[...] for which the question of
> > veracity is defined as UNDECIDABLE" in rule 2110 is one of the most
> > obvious, but the word "is" is common enough that nounphrase is
> > nounphrase is a very common combination to find in all sorts of rules.
> > "Each color of Ribbon is defined as a currency" in rule 2199 also seems
> > wrong, and I suspect there are a lot of other instances.
> 
> Again, it's only a SHOULD.  And "defined as X" is an adjective phrase.
The original rule says "Each color of ribbon is a currency"; the
"defined as" would be inserted by your proposal. Likewise for "is
UNDECIDABLE" vs "is defined as UNDECIDABLE".

Also, it is a very bad idea to put SHOULDs into the rules which cause
things other than players or people to carefully consider their actions.
(I remember when I submitted the RBoA as a proposal with the wrong II,
thus causing it to break a SHOULD; what happened to the resulting court
case? I can't remember. Maybe I should try it again, with the correct
text...)
-- 
ais523

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