Re: [spoon-discuss] For what it's worth...

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 7/7/02 at 9:56 AM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> Quoth Glotmorf,
>> 
>>> {{ _The Scavengers_
>>> 
>>> There exists a Society called the Scavengers.
>>> 
>>> The initial list of Members consists of all currently Active Gremlins.
>>> 
>>> Any Player who is a member of a football team can join the Scavengers by
>>> declaring eir desire to do so on the Public Forum.
>> 
>> Who IS a football player? Why?
> 
> The football teams and the members of same are listed on the roster.
> 

That's not what I meant. The emphasis on the 'is' was not intended to convey
confusion and unlearnedness, but ranther to indicate incredulity or
disbelief. What I was wondering was, why 'is' a football player? I had
expected 'is not' a football player, and read 'is not' the first time, but
then realized what it actually said upon rereading. So again I query:

<disbelief> Who IS a football player? </disbelief> Why?

>>> Any Active Gremlin who is not a Member of the Scavengers automatically
>> becomes
>>> a Member at the beginning of a nweek.
>> 
>> Did we ever actually settle whether it was 'nweek' or 'enn-week'?
> 
> Massive precedent seems to suggest "nweek".  I don't think there are any
> instances left where "nweek" is preceded by "an".
> 

Um... Look at every rule I've ever written with the word 'nweek' in it...
And others:

r154
r356.B.3
.B.4
.B.5
r293
r295
r441.B.12
r578.F.1
.F.2
.F.3
.G.2 (the one you added yourself! ;)
r698
r749

These use 'a nweek' :
r15
r443
r578.H.1 (both 'a' and 'an' in the same rule! (and it's your rule! ;) )

I would say massive precedent seems to suggest 'enn-week' ;)

BTW, I tried to use the Ultra Experimental Full-Text Search engine to find
'a nweek' and 'an nweek', but it always returned a lot of stuff that just
had 'nweek', without ever use 'a' or 'an' in front of 'nweek'. Bug, or
feature? (I tried again with 'a Banana Gremlin', and got everything with
'Gremlin' in it...)

>>> Any Gremlin who is a Member of the Scavengers ceases to be a Member if
>> it goes
>>> into Hiding.
>>> 
>>> The Scavengers has a Resource Pool for carryable grid objects.  Any
>> carryable
>>> grid objects other than Players and Gremlins can be added to the Resource
>>> Pool.
>> 
>> What, no toads? ;)
> 
> Did I say no toads? :)
> 

Aren't toads players? Or did I miss that one, too?

-- 
Wonko

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