Hi,
On 2025-05-12 15:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Steve George <st...@futurile.net> writes:
Note that 'Deliberate' means to "consider or discuss", and a person
would "vote" at the end of a deliberation period to "to express your
choice or opinion". That is the standard use in English. One doesn't
keep a "Deliberation" as a record of choices (e.g. tally of
votes). Also, to be explicit just because something is a "vote"
doesn't imply that the it's "majority rule" on anything similar. I
bring it up, because it's going to sounds odd to me as a native
English speaker.
- https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vote
- https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/deliberation
Oh, I perhaps mistakenly assumed “deliberation” was the same as French
“délibération”, “decision taken by a governing body”:
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9lib%C3%A9ration#Traductions
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9lib%C3%A9ration
Wiktionary seems to agree with the “decision taken” meaning, but
WordNet
(US English) less so.
So now I’m not so sure but I still find the term “vote” to be loaded
(and not what GCD 001 uses anyway).
WDYT?
I consider any quantification of opinion to be a vote.
I can readily accept that Guix is using everything within the scope of
deliberation but I cant shake off this perspective.
Given my last message covering EU governance, I should consider that a
lot of votes would occur within the domain of deliberative activity.
FIWI, I made an arbitrary choice to peruse governance of a
not-for-profit, The Magic Circle.
While, `Section 6' and other facets is heavy towards to use of 'vote',
it is the case that `6.6.3' does make reference to the term `poll':
https://themagiccircle.co.uk/about/the-societys-rules/
Perhaps the use of the word `poll' would be considered as having softer
meaning withing Guix's nomenclature?
Kind regards,
Ludo’.
Jonathan
