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Bill: Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist Party
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[?]:
| We propose that, effective immediately and either following each Census or included within that Census, a secondary linguistic list be presented and surveyed to determine the extent of multilingualism within Sekowo. This will better enable us to determine the nature of our linguistic situation, and what policies to follow as a nation concerning our linguistic heritage. We ask that all parties survey their constituency and determine the secondary speakership of all languages listed below, as well as Welsh. These are the percentages of Sekowan native language speakership (per the 2515 Census): Davostana - 0.51% English - 31.51% French - 10.57% Gao-Showan - 18.32% Greek - 5.51% Latin - 0.32% Modern Sekowan - 13.48% Normand - 5.54% Paliesin - 9.53% Other (including Welsh) - 5.19% We expect that secondary speakership in Sekowo will fall somewhere between 50-250% (leading to a total language speakership in Sekowo of around 150-350%). Upon passage of this bill, all parties will be required to submit their results in this thread, in a fashion similar to during the 2515 Census. Results shall be weighted thus: DSP - 22.5 FDP - 20.2 PUA - 15.5 NPP - 14.2 SCP - 14 USMC - 11.3 PPS - 2.2 CS - 0.1 [[To make this very clear: Your total should be between 50 and 250, depending on how multilingual you think your constituency/Sekowo is. This represents secondary speakership only, not native speakership, but will probably correspond somewhat to the ratios given above.]] |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:12:19, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | English - 37.80% French - 13.70% Gao-Showan - 21.35% Greek -7.41% Modern Sekowan - 31.72% Normand - 2.18% Paliesin - 15.05% Other (including Welsh) - 7.83% Languages not listed fall under other. |
| Date | 07:12:49, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | Posting them now, as I don't see how this bill will fail. |
| Date | 07:32:59, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | I should add this: The lowest possible I could imagine would be around 10%, if you really want to be monolingual. |
| Date | 07:34:35, January 23, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | I vote we scrap the whole census as it's gotten to be horribly overly complex. But, as a reference; English: 30% French: 17% Gao-Showan: 33% Other (Welsh, Hindi etc.): 10% Pailesian: 10% |
| Date | 07:52:39, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | [[I'm a natural Bureaucrat complexity is wonderful!]] |
| Date | 08:41:08, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | Second language levels for the Normand Pluralist Party: Davostana - 1% English - 28% French - 34% Gao-Showan - 27% Greek - 3% Latin - 2% Modern Sekowan - 6% Normand - 48% Paliesin - 7% Welsh - 5% Other (including Welsh) - 9% |
| Date | 08:41:37, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | That should be "excluding Welsh". |
| Date | 23:04:07, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | Davostana - 0.31% English - 37.88% French - 20.57% Gao-Showan - 10.38% Greek - 2.51% Latin - 1.33% Modern Sekowan - 28.48% Normand - 4.15% Paliesin - 3.13% Other (including Welsh) - 7.72% |
| Date | 01:03:59, January 24, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | A little noob help please ... how do I generate these numbers? I didn't see it in my Actions - Polls form. |
| Date | 03:47:25, January 24, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | OOC: This is completely RP, and as such there is no way to generate the numbers. You basically decide on the numbers yourself based on what you feel constitutes your party realistically. |
| Date | 07:37:49, January 24, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | [[Use the posted Census results as a guide to see what native speakership is like, and then you can look at what we put for secondary speakership to get a general idea of where you may want to go with it.]] |
| Date | 18:58:44, January 24, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | Our 2.2 % goes towards spanish. |
| Date | 19:40:22, January 24, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | Davostana - 0.01% English - 38.89% French - 15.03% Gao-Showan - 9.53% Greek - 3.56% Latin - 0.02% Modern Sekowan - 4.23% Normand - 17.38% Paliesin - 6.53% Other (including Welsh) - 4.82% |
| Date | 02:10:12, January 25, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | Normand: What % of your party speak Spanish as a second language? |
| Date | 02:10:51, January 25, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Establishment of a Linguistic sub-Census (2520) |
| Message | Man, I'm tired. I meant Peasant Party. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 360 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 118 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 272 |
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