Re: [s-b] [s-d] Proposal: de-Spivakify Ruleset

["Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Right you are.

I further revise this proposal to replace the new rule "Pronouns" with:

"All personal pronouns shall be taken to refer to entities
of any gender or of no gender regardless of the purported gender of
the words used.  Language intended to apply only to members of a specific
gender must explicitly say that it does so."

On 8/13/07, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> > I revise Proposal #143 to read:
> >
> > {{{
> > In the Ruleset, Victory Conditions, and any Open Proposals except this
> > one:
>
> Note that proposals that pass before this one will be changed, although
> their effects will already have happened. That may be fine, but it might
> not be intuitive.
>
> > 1. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-words "e" and "ey" with the
> > English word "he".
> > 2. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-word "em" with the English word
> > "him".
> > 3. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-word "eir" with the English
> > word "his".
> > 4. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-word "emself" with the
> > English word "himself".
> >
> > Create a new rule in Section 3 entitled Pronouns with the following text:
> > {{
> > All personal pronouns in the Rules shall be taken to refer to entities
> > of any gender or of no gender regardless of the purported gender of
> > the words used.  Rules intended to apply only to members of a specific
> > gender must explicitly say that they do so.
> > }}
> > }}}
>
> And as I said before, this new rule ought to apply to all text in the
> game, not just Rules.
>
> --
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