RE: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-22 Thread Alexander Smith
coppro wrote: > Looking at the archives, the only effect of this clause would be to > cause Zefram to win, rather than awaiting his return and posting es own > win announcement. (Is {es} the correct word there? Or would {is} or "eir". Most Agoran-Spivak pronouns are based on conjugations of "they";

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-21 Thread Sean Hunt
Warrigal wrote: > If "awaiting his return and posting [something] own win announcement" > isn't the possessive, then what is it? > > --Warrigal copproisanidiotive, apparently.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-21 Thread Warrigal
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > Elliott Hird wrote: >> 2009/3/21 Sean Hunt : >>> Looking at the archives, the only effect of this clause would be to >>> cause Zefram to win, rather than awaiting his return and posting es own >>> win announcement. (Is {es} the correct word there

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-21 Thread Sean Hunt
Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/3/21 Sean Hunt : >> Looking at the archives, the only effect of this clause would be to >> cause Zefram to win, rather than awaiting his return and posting es own >> win announcement. (Is {es} the correct word there? Or would {is} or >> {eis} be better?) > > eir. Ah, th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-21 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/21 Sean Hunt : > Looking at the archives, the only effect of this clause would be to > cause Zefram to win, rather than awaiting his return and posting es own > win announcement. (Is {es} the correct word there? Or would {is} or > {eis} be better?) eir.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: > and judge a case to get Blue) to the tough (Yellow). As far as I can > tell, no one has won by Renaissance in the year of its existence. No, but ais523 and I are both fairly likely to do it in June, if we get around to writing our theses. And i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-20 Thread Sean Hunt
Ed Murphy wrote: > coppro wrote: > White can be acquired by mentoring a new player, which can theoretically > happen more than once. Oh. The wording is pretty ambiguous; I read it as the new player getting the Ribbon, and since they can only name one mentor, they can only acquire it the second tim

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-proposal: Fixing a period from the 14th to the 17th century

2009-03-20 Thread Ed Murphy
coppro wrote: > As it stands, Win by Renaissance is kind of broken. Of the twelve types > of Ribbons currently in existence, White can only be acquired twice (and > then only if you have been playing continuously since you started), > Magenta can only be acquired once a year, and Ultraviolet can b