Re: spoon-discuss: Neatening up - English

[Dan Waldron <wald7330@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

We'd better not enact this unless we are prepared to go through the entire
ruleset and catch every single slip-up first.  Right now our usage is
quite inconsitant.  And even then our rules will start to look like
they've been written in German.

I used to always capitalize defined words, back at about the time when I
joined Berserker; but I don't like to do this so much anymore because it
makes me feel like I'm shouting.

Everything else in your proposal I am willing to support.

I think that most of the defined-word/natural-word confusion could be
avoided if we are just more careful to define our terms when we propose
rules.

Dan Waldron
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