On a side-note, if capitalization no longer denotes terms of art and should be interpreted literally, I got to go look for a real-life banner to raise some time in the future...
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 08:20, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Capitalization is generally inconsequential and should not be used to > infer that it's a term of art > > I disagree. And my counterargument is going to make me sip a lot of air > through my teeth because I don’t like it. > > The capitalization thing is an Agoran slang/tradition/cultural thing > (yuck, uuuhggghh). It’s a huge pity that it’s not obvious without being > familiar with the culture, but capitalizing to denote a term of art is > frequent and ubiquitous enough that I believe that it should be > interpreted as such, because of “game custom” (R217). > > Agora doesn’t have an official language either, and the ruleset could’ve > been written in a conlang that looks like English but has a totally > different meaning for all I know, even if it “looks” like English. > > Overly paranoid Evil Genius style arguments aside, currently, Agora > doesn’t even use standard English in the first place lol, because of the > presence of Spivak. > > I argue that Agora is written in an Agora-dialect English. And in that, > capitalization does denote terms of art. > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 05:12, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk < > ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 03:56 +0000, James Cook wrote: >> > Apathy. I specify Falsifian and G. >> > >> > I initiate a Call for Judgement, specifying the statement: "Falsifian >> > and G won the game." >> > >> > Here are our arguments: >> > >> > 1. I "published", or "announced", the following: "Apathy", in this >> > message. (I also sent a separate message that just says "Apathy", >> > in case anyone insists it has to be by itself in a message for >> > me to "publish" it.) >> >> Arguments: Declaring Apathy is not the same thing linguistically as >> declaring "Apathy", much the same way as sending a message with text >> "the Herald's Report" is not the same thing as publishing the Herald's >> Report. There's a use/mention distinction issue here. >> >> If a scam along these lines worked, the required declaration would have >> to express apathy the concept, not "apathy" the word. Something like "I >> am apathetic." might potentially work, but it's a bit of a stretch. >> >> -- >> ais523 >> >>
