0x44 on Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:30:21 -0700 (MST)


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[s-b] Consultation, was Re: Bums


Jay Campbell wrote:

Playing "remove his hat" on Rule 5E29:

"Only Legal Entities can own mackeral. Any Legal Entity may destroy any amount of mackerel in their possession as a Game Action."

Several other Legal Entities besides me own mackeral. I destroy all mackeral in their possession as a Game Action.
Since you people insist on using the least B-friendly interpretation of ambiguous language, as MoS I do not think this Game Action occurred because it involves an ambiguous game state calculation. 5e29 doesn't claim precedence over 5e10, ergo 5e10 yadda yadda yadda.

I submit the following Consultation specifying "J" as the Unbeliever:
{ Did J destroy all of the game's mackerel save his own? }

Arguments:

There's no plural subject in the sentence "Only Legal Entity may destroy any amount of mackerel in their possession as a Game Action." so the impersonal pronoun refers to the singular "Legal Entity". The word "their" is used interchangeably in English to serve the purposes of the impersonal singular pronoun, and the impersonal plural pronoun. This is not inappropriate, or ambiguous in normal communication, as whether or not the word is plural or singular is picked up from context. If however, the meaning is ambiguous in B, and cannot be picked up from context, then the game action did not occur as the game action requires the calculation of an impossible or ambiguous number.

So, if the game action destroying everyone's mackerel succeeded, the game action did not occur due to the game state ambiguity.

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