Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] Peter submits p38

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 10.53 PM, Peter Cooper Jr. wrote:

> eugman@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > For some reason I don't think english words should be a subset of
> > nomic words but that just me.  I think it'd be neat if in the future
> > there was something where using a nomic word instead of an english one
> > has some advantage.
>
> Well, it's designed that way so that anywhere where one ought to be
> able to use either, such as in subgames, one can just say "Nomic Word"
> instead of "English Word or Nomic Word" everywhere... If you want to
> reward non-English Nomic Words, that seems unusual enough that saying
> "Nomic Word that is not an English Word" ought to be fine, and
> probably clearest.

Or you could have Nomic Words be the strange ones we define, English 
Words be the normal ones, and Tile Words be either. That way you can do 
all three cases with two words.

--
Wonko

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  -- Ford Prefect

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