Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Roger Hicks
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 15:09, Joshua Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or as an alternative idea, the Poet Laureate could write verses on recent > Agoran history. > Here's an idea: The Poet Laureate adds a new stanza to a specific certain rule each week, building upon previous stanzas. After a

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, warrigal wrote: >> Listen, amongst the sounds of the Heara, heara, const heara, > Heara = listen, const = amongst? of? Not bad overall! One thing to remember this is an epic. In this example, the absolute literal translation is "sound, sound, around[us] sound"

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Benjamin Schultz wrote: > On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> >> Actually, how about as an Epic? >> >> Create the following Rule (simultaneous transcription from old Agoran): > > What language did you use as "old Agoran?" And what does Blob have to do > with

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread warrigal
Yay, a parallel text! On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O Agorans, now gather and hear me speak,'Tha Agorae masor forae nont Agorae = Agorans, nont = speak? > Beneath the fountain's spray andUnttri fontaine siphora Unttri = beneath, fontain

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Actually, how about as an Epic? Create the following Rule (simultaneous transcription from old Agoran): What language did you use as "old Agoran?" And what does Blob have to do with the first stanza? - Benjamin Schultz KE3OM OscarMeyr

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Joshua Boehme
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:14:29 -0500 Pavitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our Bards are Three! Let's celebrate > And not this moment shun -- > Proposal, "Poet Laureate", > AI and II 1: > { > [Ordain an Office for us who'll > Ensure that prose stays not the same.] > At Power 1, create a Rule, > "The

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: > Not really. The Mad Scientist's weekly duty is just to create the > proposal. There's also some useless verbiage about how the proposal > constitutes the Mad Scientist's report if it's adopted, but that > portion of eir duties is always either absent or trivially fulfilled. The us

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Pavitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No objection, and general approval, to a rule giving a bard a win >> if e manages weekly displays of wit, poetry, etc. with some >> approval method for quality (e.g. through proposal). I'm just not >> sure if "constant propos

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Pavitra wrote: > On Friday 24 October 2008 11:29:50 am Kerim Aydin wrote: >> I don't mind a weekly proposal, but completing eir monthly reports >> is dependent on voters wanting their rules to rhyme? Not an office >> I'd personally take. > I assume that if voters don't want t

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:14, Pavitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Our Bards are Three! Let's celebrate >> And not this moment shun -- >> Proposal, "Poet Laureate", Actually, how about as an Epic? Create the following Rule (simultaneous transcription f

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Pavitra
On Friday 24 October 2008 11:29:50 am Kerim Aydin wrote: > I don't mind a weekly proposal, but completing eir monthly reports > is dependent on voters wanting their rules to rhyme? Not an office > I'd personally take. I assume that if voters don't want their rules to rhyme then this proposal won'

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Roger Hicks wrote: >> There is an office Poet Laureate, >> Which no one but a Bard can occupy. >> So long eir post e doesn't abdicate, >> Eir weekly duties are that e must try >> To make a new Proposal to amend >> A Rule, still writ in prose, to

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:18 -0600, Roger Hicks wrote: > Bravo! You'd have my vote if you sent this to the public forum. Not mine, though, as it's insufficiently Powerful to allow wins. (You need Power 2 for that.) -- ais523

Re: DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Roger Hicks
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:14, Pavitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our Bards are Three! Let's celebrate > And not this moment shun -- > Proposal, "Poet Laureate", > AI and II 1: > { > [Ordain an Office for us who'll > Ensure that prose stays not the same.] > At Power 1, create a Rule, > "The Poet

DIS: Proto: Poet Laureate

2008-10-24 Thread Pavitra
Our Bards are Three! Let's celebrate And not this moment shun -- Proposal, "Poet Laureate", AI and II 1: { [Ordain an Office for us who'll Ensure that prose stays not the same.] At Power 1, create a Rule, "The Poet Laureate" its name:       There is an office Poet Laureate, Which no one but