Re: [s-d] [s-b] Happy Holindays

[Justin Ahmann <quesmarktion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That seems to have jogged my memory a little bit.

Codae




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From: Gabriel Vistica <gvistica@xxxxxxxxx>
To: discussion list for B Nomic <spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 4:30:24 PM
Subject: Re: [s-d] [s-b] Happy Holindays

I believe at one point (before I joined), there was a form of punishment where 
the player being punished was not allowed to use words larger than X number of 
syllables. The greater the punishment, the fewer syllables allowed per word.



----- Original Message ----
> From: Justin Ahmann <quesmarktion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 2:11:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [s-d] [s-b]  Happy Holindays
> 
> Why were syllables  important?
> 
> Codae
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From:  Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent:  Thu, August 12, 2010 1:10:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [s-b] [s-d] Happy  Holindays
> 
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Gabriel Vistica <gvistica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  Apologies. I had misread the rule about ntime and was under the impression 
> that
> > nyears were 0-based, while nweeks wer 1-based. My  mistake.
> 
> Wait, yeah. The first nyear is explicitly defined by Rule 3  as
> beginning with the probably-hypothetical nweek 0. So Corvette of
> nweeks  ending  in 3 is AGSHD. Well, we totally failed to party in
> Agora's dishonor.  I hope they feel mildly insulted by the oversight.
> 
> Fun fact: "nweek" is  explicitly defined to be a two-syllable word,
> "for all purposes of grammar  and syllable-counting." The Revival Era
> did not actually revive the aspect of  the old rules that made
> syllable-counting relevant, so this is dumb, but  there you go.
> 
> Anyhow, I move to the  Piazza.
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