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From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: A bill of players' rights
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Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 20:49:59 GMT
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In article <1993May19.194729.20282@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdr11@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
>In article <C791n4.6I4@rice.edu>, adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
>>(plus, GUE is MIT: it's common
>> knowledge that tunneling is a favorite pastime thereabouts)
>>>     16.  Not to need to be American to understand hints
>> Sure.  But it's not always obvious what is and what isn't a common referent.
>You say, "it's common knowledge" above.  Common to whom?  Certainly over here in
>the UK rather little is known about what goes on at MIT. 

Got me.  See?  In _LH_, my referents coincided with Meretzky's, but not with yours.
The problem is that we all will tend to write games that reflect the language and
thoughts of our culture.  At Rice, we obviously have a lot more in "common" with
the MIT Hackish crowd than the UK folks.  Common to whom is the question we
_should_ try to keep in mind, which is, I think, what #16 means.  It's very easy
to forget that one's world isn't the only one.

Adam
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