Warrigal wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:31 Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
You kids and your timely fashions. When I was young, we did things as soon
as possible both ways and we liked it!
You know, I *still* think of VVLOP and second-class person
twg wrote:
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 gam
On 2/6/20 7:26 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-business wrote:
> I object to the lists one because the example given is very confusing.
> It's not an inline list because it's separated from the surrounding
> prose, and it's not a block list because the elements aren't separated
> by line breaks. An
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 22:06, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
wrote:
>
> On 2/6/20 7:47 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-business wrote:
> > "I intend, with Agoran consent, to enact the following Editorial
> > Guidelines:"
> >
> > does not seem like multiple separate intents.
>
>
> Whoops, you're right.
On 2/6/20 7:47 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-business wrote:
> "I intend, with Agoran consent, to enact the following Editorial Guidelines:"
>
> does not seem like multiple separate intents.
Whoops, you're right. I was thinking the rule said CAN enact a
(singular) Guideline, not CAN enact (plural) Gu
I wrote:
> I object to the capitalisation one for the same reason as Alexis.
>
> I object to the lists one because the example given is very confusing.
> It's not an inline list because it's separated from the surrounding
> prose, and it's not a block list because the elements aren't separated
> by
On 1/30/2020 3:44 AM, Alexis Hunt wrote:
> On Thu., Jan. 30, 2020, 06:08 AIS523 wrote:
>> I should note, though, that "in a timely fashion" is a relatively new
>> phrasing. For a long time, the standard phrasing was "as soon as
>> possible" (which was nonetheless defined to mean "within seven day
On Thu., Jan. 30, 2020, 06:08 AIS523--- via agora-discussion, <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 17:25 +, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-
> discussion wrote:
> > Aris wrote:
> > > For the record, I strongly disagree. I think Spivak is part of Agoran
> > > culture at
On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 17:25 +, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-
discussion 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.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:31 Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> You kids and your timely fashions. When I was young, we did things as soon
> as possible both ways and we liked it!
>
You know, I *still* think of VVLOP and second-class persons (and
second-cl
On 1/29/2020 9:25 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote:
> (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.
Well, e's not wrong...
On 1/29/2020 9:32 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>
> On 1/29/2020 9:25 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote:
>> (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.
>
>
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 make
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
> On Jan 29, 2020, at 8:25 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:23 AM omd via agora-discussion <
> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:07 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
>> wrote:
>>> Personally, I’m vaguely o
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:23 AM omd via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:07 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
> wrote:
> > Personally, I’m vaguely of the opinion that we should switch to
> they/them instead of Spivak in general. Our use of
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 10:23, omd via agora-discussion
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:07 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
> wrote:
> > Personally, I’m vaguely of the opinion that we should switch to they/them
> > instead of Spivak in general. Our use of Spivak now feels like using
> >
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:07 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
wrote:
> Personally, I’m vaguely of the opinion that we should switch to they/them
> instead of Spivak in general. Our use of Spivak now feels like using Betamax
> in 1990—sure, it was probably better, but the other one won and i
It is interesting to consider changing our use of pronouns, but if
we're not changing anything, is there any reason to cover pronouns in
the editorial guidelines at all? I don't see any confusion or
inconsistency related to them, and I expect any new player who has
given the rules even a cursory re
This is a good point. Suggested reword: {
The singular non-gendered pronoun is "e" in the nominative, and "em" in
the accusative. Do not use "he/him/his," or "she/her/her,” or “they/them/their”
as a singular pronoun when referring to a person of unknown gender.
}
Personally, I’m vaguely of the opi
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 18:43 Jason Cobb via agora-business <
agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> [Informal title: "Pronouns"]
>
> {
>
> The singular non-gendered pronoun is "e" in the nominative, and "em" in
> the accusative. Do not use "they" as a singular pronoun. Do not use
> "he/him/his" or
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