On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 12:25, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> 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! > You kids and your timely fashions. When I was young, we did things as soon as possible both ways and we liked it!
