On 2020-06-08 12:17, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote:
On 6/8/2020 11:12 AM, Aris Merchant wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:26 AM Rebecca wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:14 PM Kerim Aydin wrote:
On 6/7/2020 9:36 PM, Aris Merchant wrote:
Amend each of Rule 1023 ("Agoran Time"), Rule 2496 ("Rewards"), and
Rule 2602 ("Glitter"), in that order, by changing the text
"in an officially timely fashion" to read "in a stately fashion".
This is another case (like my WILL last month) that adding a word like
"stately" that means nothing is more confusing than "officially timely"
which at least contains the appropriate concepts (official and timely).
Agreed, there is no concept of the passing of time whatsoever inherent in
the phrase "stately fashion". "officially timely" is kind of gross but it's
also something that doesn't matter enough for me to be mad about it.
Yes, there is? From the OED, one of the definitions of stately is "Of
movement or gait: slow and dignified; deliberate, sedate". So it's
like saying, "in a sedate fashion". I could use that if people would
prefer?
No, I think I'm having the same reaction to "stately" (or any other single
word) that you had when I suggested replacing "CAN and SHALL" with WILL.
The slight extra verbiage in "officially timely" is worth the precision,
in that it ties into other rules-terms ("offices" and "timely fashion").
I echo G. here; e expressed my thoughts very succinctly.
I would also like to point out that I rarely see the word "stately"
used; let alone in the context of the definition to which you refer.
It's an obscure definition of an uncommon word. I would argue that this
proposal would do nothing but worsen our readability problem.
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Trigon
