ehird wrote:
> On 26 June 2010 21:12, Elliott Hird <penguinoftheg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I assume the office of Mary; and prior to doing so, Godot registers.
>>
>> Godot is me, as of before the previous line.
>>
>> As of this line, however, Godot is not me. Godot must therefore be waited
>> for.
>>
>
> And a first fitful act: I call for judgement on the statement that "I
> registered in the quoted message", and submit the following as
> arguments:
>
> I intended to register when composing the above message, not realising
> that I was already registered, and I think that intent is conveyed
> clearly enough in this message to satisfy R869. I am obviously a
> first-class person, so it seems to me that I must have been
> registered, despite already being a player. However, according to
> R869:
>
> The verb "to be registered" means to become a player (i.e., to
> have one's citizenship changed from Unregistered to Registered),
>
> My citizenship cannot have been changed from Unregistered to
> Registered, because it was not Unregistered to start with. Yet the
> rules explicitly state that I can and did register.
>
> Although I'm not entirely sure what that message did, I'm pretty sure
> the outcome is that everything is the same as before I posted that
> message.
Gratuitous: Rule 869's definition of registration in paragraph 2
("to have one's citizenship changed from Unregistered to Registered")
is sufficient to trigger the exception clause in paragraph 3 ("unless
explicitly ... prevented by the rules").
