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Bill: Official State Record and Business Language Resolution
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sons of Liberty
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: October 2549
Description[?]:
| We propose that the official language of the government, not in practice but in ceremony, be that of Latin as an homage to our heritage from the ancient and foreign Roman Empire. Any bills and descriptions may be submitted in either English or Latin. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:39:39, March 21, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Official State Record and Business Language Resolution |
| Message | What do we think? Qui cogitamus? |
| Date | 10:46:36, March 21, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Official State Record and Business Language Resolution |
| Message | We'd also note that As part of this, we'd like to - if this passes - put the National Anthem and Mottos to Latin. We could translate them directly as-is, or we can figure out new ones. |
| Date | 21:17:09, March 21, 2008 CET | From | Freeminded People's Party | To | Debating the Official State Record and Business Language Resolution |
| Message | Why not? Hopefully the nation's name-change will take effect soon. |
| Date | 02:08:00, March 22, 2008 CET | From | Society for Feudalist Monarchy | To | Debating the Official State Record and Business Language Resolution |
| Message | We agree, although it is important that any Latin used is grammatically correct. (I think it would be "quid cogitamus") Additionally, the National Anthem that we currently have is in meter, and, as I have found in my Vergil AP class, writing Latin in meter is remarkably difficult. I suppose that we could do something "easy"--like an iambic meter, but dactylic hexameter is the most elevated and prestigious of them. Perhaps I could just find a really patriotic part of the Aeneid, or may one of Horace's Roman Odes. |
| Date | 04:19:48, March 22, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Official State Record and Business Language Resolution |
| Message | Fair enough. My Latin's kinda out of practice, been a few years for me. We certainly can support some good samples of prewritten meter. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 750 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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