Hm, that's a good point about capitalization. I'm not really familiar enough with game custom to say.
Your idea about raising a real-life banner has got me thinking... Raising a banner is a regulated action (R2125), so even if we assume capitalization doesn't matter, and that you did raise a banner in real life, Rule 2125 would say that you didn't raise a banner, because you didn't do it using "the methods explicitly specified in the Rules". I feel like my understanding is a bit lacking, though. R2125 + R2152 tell us that attempting to raise a banner by a method outside the rules is "unsuccessful". But it feels a bit similar to the rules claiming that I don't exist, or that faster-than-light travel is possible, or that ducks can't fly. When R2438 says "This causes that person to win the game.", what tells us us that "This" refers "Raising a Banner in a way the rules deem to be successful", rather than just "raising a banner" in a literal sense? Is it because Raising a Banner is capitalized and/or a term of art? Is it because it's game custom to interpret the rules this way? Or is there another reason? On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 07:32, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On a side-note, if capitalization no longer denotes terms of art and should > be interpreted literally, I got to go look for a real-life banner to raise > some time in the future... > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 08:20, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > I argue that Agora is written in an Agora-dialect English. And in that, > > capitalization does denote terms of art.
