Okay, a few comments:
1. What does it mean to modify a “document”? Is that even a valid
operation? I’d go with “permanent regulation”, which gives it a clearly
defined status.
2. 2 Agoran Consent sounds a bit too high to me. Maybe 1.5? This is
entirely subjective, so I’ll understand if you
So, basically, Spivak is just like “quang”.
I feel the same way.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 22:11, Aris Merchant <
thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, it really doesn’t. Or, rather, it does, but only in the same sense that
> Brainfuck has the power to express everything in Python (it is
It took be a couple years to get used to Spivak, but now I get
actively and genuinely annoyed with just about all my non-Agoran
writing when I need a pronoun and can't use Spivak. It really does
feel elegant to me, compared to 'they', once you get in the habit.
And sure, that puts us in the same
No, it really doesn’t. Or, rather, it does, but only in the same sense that
Brainfuck has the power to express everything in Python (it is Turing
complete). English can express just about anything, but whether it can
express it *well* is a separate matter.
-Aris
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 1:05 PM
I think conventional English still has the linguistic power to represent
that anyways.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 21:49, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk <
ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 15:40 -0500, D. Margaux wrote:
> > I have no objection if people want to use the singular
Huh. I think I've been mostly using "its" for entities that are
distinctively non-person, never occurred to me otherwise. A quick web
search on Spivak defines it as gender-neutral only (and all examples I
see are to show replacements for genders). Not that Agora can't
support it's own peculiar
On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 15:40 -0500, D. Margaux wrote:
> I have no objection if people want to use the singular “they,” but I
> have come to enjoy the peculiar (and IMO elegant) Agoran style of
> e/em/eir.
>
> Perhaps the Rules could provide that Agorans SHOULD use gender
> neutral pronouns,
There's such a thing as advocating for change, and there's such a
thing of being respectful of a community's established practices
because you're a relative newcomer. That said, I wouldn't want to
explicitly proscribe either option using a Rule - if the Lexicon is
used, I think it's worth putting
I have no objection if people want to use the singular “they,” but I have come
to enjoy the peculiar (and IMO elegant) Agoran style of e/em/eir.
Perhaps the Rules could provide that Agorans SHOULD use gender neutral
pronouns, without legislating specifically which ones?
> On Feb 7, 2019, at
I’m up for they/them. It’s what I’ve been using in my proposals, anyways.
I know Oerjan has requested me to use “proper Agoran pronouns”, and with
all due respect to them, I choose not to.
That aside and as for my sentiment about this in general: tradition be
damned, advocating for change should
On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 11:05 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> So I walked away from the keyboard but kept mulling it, so here's a
> proto:
>
> Create the following Power-2 Rule, the Lexicon:
[snip]
> [*Which Officer? we don't really need a new one just for this]
Registrar. They're in charge of
Speaking of Agoran terminology, it would probably be a good idea to define the
Spivak pronouns in the rules. (Personally, I’d advocate for adopting they/them,
but I know that’s unpopular.)
Gaelan
> On Feb 7, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>
> So I walked away from the keyboard but
So I walked away from the keyboard but kept mulling it, so here's a proto:
Create the following Power-2 Rule, the Lexicon:
The Lexicon is a document maintained by the [officer*] as part of
eir monthly report. The Lexicon SHOULD consist of a list of term
definitions and jargon used in Agora,
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