Sunday, July 23, 2006

Proposal: A, Any and Each

3-3. Cannot be enacted after time-out.—Chronos

Adminned at 26 Jul 2006 11:57:27 UTC

Add to the Glossary:

Undefined particles. Whenever one of these undefined particles: “A”, “ANY” or “EACH” are used in the subject of a phrase, those particles shall be construed as having the same meaning, i.e., they refer individually to each of the persons in the referred domain.

Bucky said:

No, Each is not the same as Any or A.

“Bucky may often reduce the Influence of a Traveller by 1”
“Bucky may often reduce the Influence of each Traveller by 1”

“The Arbiter is a Traveller who has an Influence of 50”
“The Arbiter is any Traveller who has an Influence of 50”

But, in the subject, they work alike:

A Traveller is a player of this game.
Any Traveller is a player of this game.
Each Traveller is a player of this game.

posted by ChronosPhaenon at 23 Jul 2006 14:42:00 UTC Comments (8)

Comments

Hix:

23-07-2006 15:44:46 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

23-07-2006 15:50:21 UTC

Do you care to explain why?

Bucky:

23-07-2006 19:04:47 UTC

Add the adjective “single”

“Any single Traveller” ≠ “A single Traveller.

Kevan: he/him

24-07-2006 04:59:05 UTC

against Potential grammar scams sound annoying.

TAE:

24-07-2006 21:03:38 UTC

for
I’m not getting Bucky’s distinction.  What CP is proposing seems like the “common meaning” of the words in the context of the ruleset.  I hate to see us come to the point where we need this though…

Thelonious:

25-07-2006 08:13:09 UTC

for

Bucky:

26-07-2006 17:15:23 UTC

What I mean is there’s a major difference between
“A single Traveller may turn the crank in a week”
and
“Each single Traveller may turn the crank in a week”

Bucky:

26-07-2006 17:27:30 UTC

Oh, I almost forgot,  against