[Nomic] Rule five.

Stuart Moore nomic-talk at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Sep 28 00:38:01 2004


David (Birch) wrote:
> 
> I propose the following rule: Rule five.
> 
> Once the notice of consensus for this rule is issued, all rules with 
> higher numbers than this rule stand, but every fifth word (starting at 
> the title of the rule) is not considered to exist. This rule does not 
> affect any proposal under consideration at the time the notice of 
> consensus is passed, and any rule passed from one of these proposals is 
> put into the ruleset above this rule, the number of this rule being 
> changed accordingly.
> 
> I also wish the following term be added to the dictionary, (If there is 
> any confusion)
> 
> Word: A word is any string of characters, including exclusively the 
> commonly recognised twenty-six letters of the english alphabet, and the 
> two symbols "-" and "'" (we may wish to define the terms "foreign word" 
> and "1337 word" later.)
> 

I'm going to have a look through later to work out exactly what form of 
silly buggers he expects this to cause....