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Re: non-word "noone" in constitution



nick black <dankamongmen@gmail.com> writes:

> i was reading our Constitution, and §5.1.4 states:

>   "Make any decision for whom noone else has responsibility."

> "noone" is a non-word [0], and while i doubt it'll ever be the basis of
> a court ruling or anything, "no one" was correctly used in the language
> added to 6.3.6 by Constitution v1.8, and another instance of "noone" was
> removed from §A.1.6. so unless it requires a vote or something, it
> should probably be fixed?

It does alas require a vote, at least according to my reading of the
constitution.  We don't have a provision for making minor changes apart
from the normal amendment process.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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