Aris wrote: > For the record, I strongly disagree. I think Spivak is part of Agoran > culture at this point, like the “or” suffixes at the end of offices. It’s > part of what makes Agora different and unique. In short, it’s a dialectal > variation, and I think Agora having its own dialect, not just its own > terminology, is pretty awesome.
Yeah, I'm with you on this one. Tbh I think Falsifian expressed it well when e talked about seeing the ruleset as some sort of ancient relic - the things like "-or" suffixes, Spivak pronouns, CAN/SHOULD/MUST, "in a timely fashion", etc. are all pieces of history reflecting how the game came to be the way it is. Heck, even a very small amount of the language from the prototypical Nomic is still in the current ruleset! > All decisions by Judges shall be in accordance with all the rules then > in effect; but when the rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear on > the point at issue, then the Judge shall consider game-custom and the > spirit of the game before applying other standards. https://web.archive.org/web/20200110101829/http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm (then again, there's also this:) > Judgments in Nomic are not bound by rules of precedent, for that would > require a daunting amount of record-keeping for each game. -twg
