Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: CFJ about the sushi

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:20 AM 1/6/2002 +0000, you wrote:

> I present the following statement for judgement:
> The lexical construct "official forum" refers to all forums.

By the power vested in me by the Rules of B Nomic, I herewith and hereby 
judge the statement "The lexical construct 'official forum' refers to all 
forums" to be TRUE.

official (adj)
1 : of or relating to an office , position, or trust <official duties>
2 : holding an office
3 a : AUTHORITATIVE, AUTHORIZED <official statement> b : prescribed or 
recognized as authorized <an official language> c : described by the U.S. 
Pharmacopeia or the National Formulary
4 : befitting or characteristic of a person in office <extended an official 
greeting>

The third definition is the applicable one in this instance.

A forum is designated by Rule 16/0 as "the means by which Players 
communicate."  Therefore any means by which Players communicate is 
prescribed or recognized as authorized by Rule 16/0 to act as a Forum. Any 
forum NOT prescribed by the rules of B Nomic -- meaning any means of 
communication which is not the means by which Players communicate -- is not 
an "official" forum. In fact, it may well be an "unofficial" forum.

Given this just and true interpretation of the Rules, any holder of the 
Cursed Sushi of Babel is required to adjust eir language as stated in Rule 
213/0 in any means by which Players communicate, as this is the criteria 
for an "official" forum. This shall hold true if the Cursed One is posting 
to a public forum (including but not limited to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx 
and spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx), private forum, just sending email to some 
other Player, or even phoning another Player, as these are all "means by 
which Players communicate" and are thereby valid Fora under Rule 16/0.

If the holder of the Cursed Sushi of Babel participates in any 
communication with another player without adjusting eir language according 
to Rule 213/0, then the holder of the Cursed Sushi may be considered in 
violation of Rule 213/0. Of course, there's no penalty for that, so big whoop.

However, if the holder of the Cursed Sushi of Babel wants to call eir 
Grandma or write eir Congressman or communicate by any means with a 
non-Player, e shall not be subject to Rule 213/0.

Judgment has been rendered.

So it is. So shall it be.

-- The Honorable Gritter, Esq.