We are working on a brand new version of the game! If you want to stay informed, read our blog and register for our mailing list.
Bill: Official Language Reduction Act of 2520
Details
Submitted by[?]: 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2521
Description[?]:
| My fellow representatives, as you know we have ten official languages. Now this is'nt necessarily a bad thing, as it reflects the diversity of Sekowo, however three of the official languages are now spoken by less than 1% of the population each, and thusly we feel they should no longer be official languages. Thereby we ask that Davostana, Latin & Tsekwon be removed from the list of official languages. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:39:02, January 22, 2008 CET | From |  Ma'avak | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: Even though Sekowo was founded with a majority Davostana (Spanish right?) speaking population and a state based on the language and the language as the official language of the state? Sorry for intruding here, I know it's rude, I'm just interested as your RP history for why the nation started that way but now has no people speaking the language. Thanks. |
| Date | 05:23:12, January 22, 2008 CET | From |  帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: Well, honestly I have no idea where it changed, it was Greco-Romanesque themed when I got here, and from looking at previous bils, it looks like the Spanish, Central/South American thing actually only lasted a short while early on and changed to various things after that. |
| Date | 09:36:47, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | We cannot support such a measure until the exact nature of "official" status in Sekowo has been delineated. |
| Date | 15:17:49, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | Official status meaning that the language is listed as such internationally as well as top level/national public documents are required to be printed in the language. A person may request a document in an unofficial language in most cases (if it's a language spoken by only 1,000 people obviously it would'nt be), however public documents are only required to be printed in the official languages. |
| Date | 16:57:37, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | can we have less MAIN cultures in our country we are one country, our national differences shouldn't be too extreme |
| Date | 16:58:50, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | unless someone hopes to explain the bizarre migration patterns where one nation didnt try to suppress the other. |
| Date | 17:05:15, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | We have several cultures because we lie in an area of cultural convergance. The Gao-Showan/Japanese from the Mid and North East. The Kli'kut from the South-East. The Greco-Roman culture developed on the coat, primarily in Lorrod and Southern Bizena. The Nordic from the North (the early Kazulians). The French and Nordic from Lourenne. The Olmec (which tend to stick to themselves) from central South Undarro. The Gao-Showan, Nordic and Greco-roman are the three main cultures though. |
| Date | 19:01:53, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | What the hell are the Olmec? We support the removal of the three languages listed. |
| Date | 20:27:24, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | The Olmec are a native peoples (central american culture) that live in a part of Southern Undarro. They keep to themselves mostly, so it's not surprising you've not heard of them. OOC: We've never had alot of RP that dealed with them, and I have'nt gotten around to making a wiki page for them. |
| Date | 00:21:26, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | Sounds like the Democratic Socialist Party invented this country history for their own sake. |
| Date | 00:31:01, January 23, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: I did'nt invent the history. The Greco-Roman theme existed when I came here. The Gao-showa would have obviously been here, given they live in this area. The Nordic, well We're bordered by a Germanic country and have close ties to a Nordic country. Anyways, we voted on the canon cultures of Sekowo along while back. |
| Date | 00:32:31, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: This stuff has been around long before you newbies got here, deal with it. |
| Date | 00:39:52, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Ma'avak | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: But on the same logic the Spanish culture was there before any of you got there... Sorry to keep moaning about this but Spanish Sekowo was quite a cool place and looked really nice it just seems quite sad/unexplainable that it dissapeared. |
| Date | 00:53:26, January 23, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: Well, there was the Archonic dictatorship for along while, so I guess you could assume that they wiped out any traces of it and basically reinstituted the 'native' cultures of Sekowo, sort of what Hitler wanted to do. |
| Date | 00:54:47, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: Ma'avak I was only refering to the absurd comment "Sounds like the Democratic Socialist Party invented this country history for their own sake." |
| Date | 00:57:27, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | OOC: I didn't see your post right above mine when I posted that. |
| Date | 03:53:35, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | Under that explanation, we shall vote in favour. However, we insist that a law be drafted outlining the status of languages in Sekowo (not necessarily specifically, but broadly, somewhat as you have begun here). |
| Date | 04:26:01, January 23, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | The former AUP passed a very long bill regarding languages and statuses and such, we suggest you read that and than decide if it did'nt cover anything. |
| Date | 04:59:29, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | Know where to find it? |
| Date | 05:43:11, January 23, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=153611 |
| Date | 19:49:38, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | I think the PPS was referring to the Olmec when he said the DSP is making stuff up. It's the first I've heard of the Olmec. |
| Date | 03:41:52, January 24, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Official Language Reduction Act of 2520 |
| Message | Well the Olmec never really come up because they live in an area that makes up 1/25 of the total area of Sekowo, and no one ever talks about them. |
subscribe to this discussion - unsubscribe
Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 734 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a cheque. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Martin Luther King Jr. |