On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:43 PM Reuben Staley via agora-business
<agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> > 8418*  Aris                     3.0   Referenda
> AGAINST; inventing Unnecessary Terms of Art for Things that don't
> Require them decreases the Readability of the Ruleset.

I question whether writing out the extremely long-phrase "the Agoran
Decision on whether to adopt a proposal" is really any more readable?
To me, that seems verbose and hard to parse. Like, when I was writing
this, I was imagining telling future generations of Agorans "we used
to call a referendum 'an Agoran Decision on whether to adopt a
proposal'" and having them gasp in astonishment at the absurdity of
using a phrase that long to refer to something that's so fundamental
to gameplay.

-Aris
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