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Bill: Motto
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Pluralism Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2500
Description[?]:
| Admittedly, the current motto is somewhat difficult for non-Sekowans to read, so we propose that the language be Pailesian instead of Tsekwon. It is useful to remember that 88% of the population speaks Pailesian, making it the most widely spoken language in the nation. (see Sekowan Linguistic Policy: http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=153611) "tesh ash azhtot pepaztatek ash kanin ku papaiztakash" "Let us cherish the citizens who cherish their country" |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The national motto.
Old value:: Meshilu'e gxanitshyeseffon kwe tshew velwai bhomaitonvyessh
Current: 万事、皇国のために/萬事、皇國ぬたみに (All for Sekowo)
Proposed: tesh ash azhtot pepaztatek ash kanin ku papaiztakash
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:34:39, December 13, 2007 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | You have digraphs in there instead of the single-letter transcriptions in the article. fail. |
| Date | 07:38:04, December 13, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | 1. It's to nationalistic. 2. There are to many Z's. |
| Date | 07:54:26, December 13, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | Also 88% of the populace can't speak that, since large minorites speak the other four major languages as well. I calculated the results of the census and gave them there own wiki page. |
| Date | 07:56:23, December 13, 2007 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | We dislike favouring one dialect over the other. We would probably vote in favour simply for the sake of populism, but the current motto is correctly capitalized, where the proposed motto is not. |
| Date | 08:08:06, December 13, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | Pailesian-37% English-20% Modern Sekowan-15% Forgot to add that, those are the top three first languages in Sekowo, though there are 10 major or significant languages. |
| Date | 01:44:55, December 14, 2007 CET | From |  Imperial Pluralism Party | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | No, you are wrong. Pailesian is 88% percent of the population. (see Sekowan Linguistic Policy: http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=153611) |
| Date | 04:07:35, December 14, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | I tried adding all the percwnts up with that, it came to more than 100, so I had to redo them. |
| Date | 04:39:45, December 14, 2007 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | There is actually nothing wrong with linguistic percentages adding up to be more than 100%. Sekowo is not purely monolingual. However, if linguistic percentages add to more than 300%, something is likely wrong. |
| Date | 05:26:26, December 14, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | We're going by a 100%= all though. Besides, IM O it makes more sense that French is spoken by 8% of the population rather than by less than 1% etc. |
| Date | 08:17:27, December 14, 2007 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Motto |
| Message | But that makes no sense linguistically. Even native language speaker numbers can often fall at over 100% (though virtually never more than 110%), as individuals can be raised with two languages on occasion |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 146 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 604 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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