Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Ballot, nweek 8

["Donald Whytock" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/3/02 at 7:49 PM Wonko wrote:

>Quoth Donald Whytock,
>
>
>>> Proposal 409/0: I Have Found The Solution! (Baron von Skippy)
>> No.  It needs better wording: As it's written now, it will rewrite r259
>to
>> say, "For the purposes of the rules, and for all other purposes within
>the
>> game, the term "proposal" shall be considered precisely equivalent to
>the far
>> superior term "proposal"."  If "proposal" is precisely equivalent to
>> "proposal", yet "proposal" is far superior to "proposal", this is a
>paradox.
>>
>> Nice try, though.
>
>Um... the words "except in r259" would seem to me to indicate that it
>wouldn't rewrite r259 at all.... Unless this is some strange usage of the
>word 'except' that I wasn't previously aware of...
>
>
>--Wonko

The words "except in r259" are part of the second sentence, which has to do with proposals.  The first sentence, which has to do with existing rules, doesn't have that condition.

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