On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's say a human started sending messages to the board in a language > that no-one else here recognized, or said "this is an obscure dialect > of Navajo" but didn't offer any other translations. At least one CFJ > found that this would fail to communicate (this was when I tried > Turkish, once; I think it was before "English" was part of any person > definition).
Yeah, but e would still be a person, because e could communicate with some people in that language even if e couldn't communicate with us :) > I see it reasonable to say "Yes Lilly is a person," but that it would > be IRRELEVANT, in that any actual attempt for her to communicate with > the fora for a legal action would be either unintelligible, or so > strongly "translated and interpreted" by you as to really be from you. Yep! But it matters if I submit her as a co-author for a proposal, as it determines whether the Promotor and Rulekeepor must mention her, so there. (Of course that's arguably UNDETERMINED since I have not provided any proof that she exists...)
