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French or German

Poll ended at Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:46 am

French
60
46%
German
71
54%
 
Total votes : 131

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Fransikania
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Founded: Oct 28, 2011
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Postby Fransikania » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:41 am

Bering wrote:
Fransikania wrote:
French has the most speakers......43,8 % of the population speaks French.
37% speaks German


What about the other 19.2% of the population? What to they speak?


The rest of the population speaks, English, Spanish , Russian, Italian. Norwegian. Swedish. Latin and Romansh.
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Cirona
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Postby Cirona » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:43 am

Zevassa wrote:Passing a law won't suddenly make a nation monolingual. Having a single recognized national language is a financial decision. Having more than one official language means that the majority of signs, legal documents, and government programs/alerts need to be written and printed twice.

I recommend choosing French as the nation's official language while continuing what it is that I assume you do now: teach both in schools. Your people are going to remain bilingual either way.


Just as a point of interest, there can be a subtle difference between an 'official' language and a 'national' language. An official language is the working language of the government, whereas a national language would be more of just a recognition and maybe a few benefits that make it distinct to a usual language.

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Fransikania
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Postby Fransikania » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:43 am

Zevassa wrote:
I recommend choosing French as the nation's official language while continuing what it is that I assume you do now: teach both in schools. Your people are going to remain bilingual either way.



Yes we do teach both languages in School.
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Cameroi
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Postby Cameroi » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:44 am

neither, and that rather obviously. also; what precisely ABOUT them?
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Postby Uirokeilendh » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:20 am

Stosva wrote:French definitely, its the most beautiful language in the world :bow:


I disagree with your taste in languages.
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Saurisisia
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Postby Saurisisia » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:33 am

German, screw French and that multilingual crap!
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Postby Vorticonia » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:07 am

With thoe language stats, it would be too disruptive to impose language. Bilingualism is what's best.

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Postby Zebulor » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:12 am

Why not esperanto?

Or interlingua?


Otherwise, we suggest French. Also we suggest building ridiculously huge giant statues of Napoleon all over your nation. For fun and profit.

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Postby Ulvena » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:12 am

I may not like a melting pot but bilingualism is a good thing. Your people have an edge over others who only have one national language. We use English and Korean. Oh look at that, even a five year old can communicate with two different types of cultures now. Do both. But if you have to go with one, go with German.

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Postby Uirokeilendh » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:16 am

Zebulor wrote:Why not esperanto?

Or interlingua?


Otherwise, we suggest French. Also we suggest building ridiculously huge giant statues of Napoleon all over your nation. For fun and profit.


Esperanto? Bleh!
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Postby Flaming Soul Forces » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:32 am

We would recommend keeping both languages but if that is not possible then we believe you should go with French to go with the name and flag, because french speakers are more populous in your nation and also because it sounds and looks better.
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Postby Zevassa » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:37 am

Uirokeilendh wrote:
Zebulor wrote:Why not esperanto?

Or interlingua?


Otherwise, we suggest French. Also we suggest building ridiculously huge giant statues of Napoleon all over your nation. For fun and profit.


Esperanto? Bleh!
Lojban is a far superior choice if you are opting for a constructed language.

Yes, but Esperanto has a much more aesthetically-pleasing flag/logo.
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Postby Rupudska » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:17 am

Why one language? Why not many? We have many!

If you must pick one, go with German.
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Elevteria
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Postby Elevteria » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:19 am

We recommend to have English, French, German as national and the others as regional acknowledged languages but if you insist on having just one we would go for German.

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Fransikania
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Postby Fransikania » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:26 am

Rupudska wrote:Why one language? Why not many? We have many!

If you must pick one, go with German.



Well we have many regional languages


the reason the government only wish to have one national language. Is because they feel it would be better as a national identity to have one national language.


Of course French or German will be a regional language. On the 1th of September becuse at that date who ever had the most vote will be the language that is the national language of Fransikania
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Postby Fransikania » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:28 am

Elevteria wrote:We recommend to have English, French, German as national and the others as regional acknowledged languages but if you insist on having just one we would go for German.



English is only spoken as a mother language by 1.5% of the population of Fransikania. Everybody over the age of 10 speaks English but most of them speaks it as a third language after French and German. So English will never be a offical or national language in Fransikania but only a regional language
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Phing Phong
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Postby Phing Phong » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:29 am

We would recommend German over French due to its greater orthographic simplicity.

Though adopting multiple national languages is simple, we have three that are official nationwide, and English is the designated lingua franca.
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Zokoria
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Postby Zokoria » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:32 am

Fransikania wrote:
Bering wrote:
What about the other 19.2% of the population? What to they speak?


The rest of the population speaks, English, Spanish , Russian, Italian. Norwegian. Swedish. Latin and Romansh.

We urge your nation to adopt English and Norwegian as official languages aside from German.
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Postby Stormaen » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:33 am

I prefer German as a language to speak but I think this country of yours would be more suited to French. :)
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Sovetskie Sotsialisticheskie Respubliki
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Postby Sovetskie Sotsialisticheskie Respubliki » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:36 am

Since there is no language which is native to majority, you should keep both french and german.
Fransikania wrote:they feel it would be better as a national identity to have one national language
Bilingualism is your national identity.
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Postby Tiroladinien and the Litorale » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:37 am

There are two reasons why I chose German:

    It's my mother's tongue.
    It's badass.
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Fransikania
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Postby Fransikania » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:38 am

Zokoria wrote:
Fransikania wrote:
The rest of the population speaks, English, Spanish , Russian, Italian. Norwegian. Swedish. Latin and Romansh.

We urge your nation to adopt English and Norwegian as official languages aside from German.



No!
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Fransikania
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Postby Fransikania » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:39 am

Sovetskie Sotsialisticheskie Respubliki wrote:Since there is no language which is native to majority, you should keep both french and german.
Fransikania wrote:they feel it would be better as a national identity to have one national language
Bilingualism is your national identity.



The Federal government wishes to creat a new national identity
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Saurisisia
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Postby Saurisisia » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:43 am

Fransikania wrote:
Sovetskie Sotsialisticheskie Respubliki wrote:Since there is no language which is native to majority, you should keep both french and german.
Bilingualism is your national identity.



The Federal government wishes to creat a new national identity


Adopt Latin. Problem solved.
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Postby Serzchepha » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:33 pm

Create a constructed language incorporating aspects of both French and German.
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