Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: de-Spivakify Ruleset

["Daniel Lepage" <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/8/07, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I revise the body of proposal #143 to read:
>
> {{{
> In the Ruleset and the Victory Conditions:
> 1. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-words "e" and "ey" with the
> English word "he".
> 2. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-word "em" with the English word "him".
> 3. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-word "eir" with the English
> word "his".
> 4. Replace all occurrences of the pseudo-word "emself" with the
> English word "himself".
>
> Create a new rule in Section 3 entitled Pronouns with the following text:
> {{
> All personal pronouns in the Rules shall be taken to refer to entities
> of any gender or of no gender regardless of the purported gender of
> the words used.  Rules intended to apply only to members of a specific
> gender must explicitly say that they do so.
> }}
> }}}
>
>
> I take "because I don't like it and think I can get a majority of
> voters to agree" to be a valid reason for any rulechange whatsoever,
> whether it has to do with language or the purpose of mackerels. In any
> case I think it will make the game more attractive to newcomers by not
> using terms in the Ruleset that aren't defined anywhere in the rules
> and which aren't in English dictionaries.

I like this version much better, and I think you're right that it'll
be much more newcomer-friendly.

-- 
Wonko
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