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

[comex <comexk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> 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.

Maybe.  One of the reasons I joined this nomic was because of the spivak ;) 
and I still like it, so I definitely intend to vote against this, if I 
remember to vote.

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