Re: [s-d] Question about p6

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 21, 2005, at 12.31 AM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:

> Wonko, I have a question about p5 and p6.
>
> Is it really your intention to restrict the set of valid Words to play
> on the Board to be Nomic Words only, and not allow any English Words? I
> think it's fine to allow Nomic Words, but English Words allow a much
> greater variety of plays, and will be less frustrating to people with
> tiles that don't allow easy formation of the very few Nomic Words. I
> would suggest replacing the phrase "Nomic Word" in the Playing rule of
> p6 with the phrase "English Word or Nomic Word". Also, it might be 
> worth
> clarifying that p6 depends on the passage of p5 (for the definition of
> Nomic Word and for the contents of the Nbrgd Dctnry of B Nmc).

Proposal 5 doesn't restrict the set of words that you can play, because 
it defines a "Nomic word" to be any word in the Dctnry, OR any English 
Word.
Specifically,
"A Nomic Word is any string of characters that is either an English 
Word or is the name of an Entry in the Nbrgd Dctnry of B Nmc."

As for dependence, I'll add that. Thanks for pointing it out.

--
Wonko

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