On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote:
I propose that the use of Spivak pronouns, and the use of English, are
cultural norms entrenched so deeply that, in a conflict between the
rules of Agora and these norms, players will defer to those norms. That
suggests that _changing_ those norms -
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Ørjan Johansen wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, CuddleBeam wrote:
>
> > Makes for an interesting example to compare Agora to. I'll see if I can
> > dredge the webmail archives to see how Agoran use of Spivak has arisen and
> > evolved. Culture is interesting.
>
> Spivak use
On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 10:12 +0100, V.J Rada wrote:
> [...] the game ends, with
> no provision for starting another game.
>
> Um...glad this no longer exists lmao
Nomic was originally intended as a game that works like a game, which
would be played for a bit and then complete.
If a player believes that the rules are such that further play is
impossible, or that the legality of a move cannot be determined with
finality, or that a move appears equally legal and illegal, then the
player may invoke judgement on a statement to that effect. If the
Not everything has to be a rule. Spivak can be encouraged but should not be
mandated or prohibited. It's just language. There's also nothing banning me
from saying plenty of words here, but that doesn't mean they're encouraged
or allowed.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:31 AM, CuddleBeam
Issues about why Spivak is better or not aside, I got curious about why
BlogNomic favors using layman language (it seems goes in hand with it being
a much more casual nomic), versus Agora leaning towards Spivak, so I did a
bit of digging.
Apparently, there HAS been a time in Blognomic where
One of Suber’s remarks is interesting, at this juncture:
> If appropriate qualifications are made for the informality of custom and
> etiquette, a case could be made that normal social life is just a system of
> indefinite tiers. Near the top of the "difficult" end of the series, below
>
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