spoon-discuss: Neatening up - English

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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__Neatening Up - Conventions__

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__Conventions__

[[This rule contains conventions on how certain parts of the rules shall be
interpreted in cases where it is confusing or ambiguous.]]

A. English

In all cases, the meaning of a term in the rules that is not specified as
having a specific meaning shall have the meaning granted to it by common use
of the english language and the context surrounding the use of the word.

B. Spivak Pronouns

The following table entries, known as Spivak pronouns, shall be understood
to replace the standard English third person pronouns with which they are
paired. The Spivak pronouns shall be understood to refer to either gender,
as appropriate. [[Example: "e" may refer either to "he" or "she".]]
                Spivak    standard
subject         e         he/she
object          em        him/her
possessive      eir/eirs  his/hers
reflexive       emself    himself/herself

Upon the creation of this rule, the admin must amend the above table to look
nice, after which this sentence and the following comment are deleted from
this rule. [[That's because I can't make it look all purdy like r7 does]]

C. Comments

The following two non-whitespace characters:

[ ]

are considered "reserved characters" when appearing in Official Documents in
ways defined herein.

Excepting any text in this Section prior to and including this sentence, any
text appearing within doubled square brackets ("[[" and "]]") shall be
considered "comment" text. Comment text shall not have the force of Rule;
its purpose is solely elucidative or demonstrative.

D. Standard Delimiters

The character sequences '{{' and '}}' (without the single quotes) may be
used in the text of any Action, Proposal, or Rule to mark the beginning and
end, respectively, of text that should be set apart, such as the text of a
Proposal or Rule, or an amendment to either one. If it is not explicitly
specified that these character sequences mean something else, they are
considered to delimit text in that way.

The character sequence '__' (again without the single quotes) may be used to
delimit the title of a Rule or Proposal; the title begins after the first
'__' and ends before the second one. The title is applied to whatever Rule
or Proposal has most recently been introduced in the text of the message. If
it appears after the opening delimiter for the Rule or Proposal it should be
applied to, it is removed from the text of that Rule or Proposal and made to
be its title.

These standard delimiters are not required to be used in any circumstance;
any method of delimiting text in which it is reasonably clear where the text
begins and ends is sufficient.

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Repeal rules 217 [[Standard Delimiters]], 7 [[Spivak Pronouns]], and 8
[[Comments]].
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-- 
Wonko