by Bok Land » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:17 am
by The Dark Star Republic » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:22 am
4. Invites member nations to pass legislature within their nation that promotes the protection of proper English.
by The United Colonies of Earth » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:36 am
by The Dark Star Republic » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:43 am
Bok Land wrote:I just don't believe that it should happen from laziness, typos, or ignorance.
by The Dark Star Republic » Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:28 am
by Three Weasels » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:09 am
by Hirota » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:00 am
Protect The English Language
Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational
Description: The World Assembly,
Acknowledging that English is a lingua franca,
Alarmed at the abuse that the English language suffers from daily including, but not limited to:
a. Spelling errors
b. Grammatical errors
c. Punctuation errors,
Having devoted attention to publications by member nations of this body and having found many errors of the above types, both mistakenly or purposefully included in said publications,
Noting that attention to proper use of the English language has declined in recent years,
1. Urges all member nations to use proper grammar and avoid mistakes in any publications that they put forward;
2. Calls upon all member nations to check any works already published for spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors and, whenever possible, correct the errors;
3. Suggests that any member nation that finds an error in a work published by another member nation reports that error to said owner of the publication in an assertive yet friendly manner;
4. Invites member nations to pass legislation within their nation that promotes the protection of proper English.
by Frustrated Franciscans » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:15 am
The United Colonies of Earth wrote:Languages, sadly, evolve and the only way to stop their evolution is to kill people. After all, Latin is perfect...and nobody speaks it anymore.
by Frustrated Franciscans » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:25 am
by Defwa » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:32 am
Frustrated Franciscans wrote:The collapse of the Latin Language was in due part to the complete collapse of the Roman Empire to the point where almost everyone in the far reaches of the Empire became illiterate.
by Separatist Peoples » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:38 am
Defwa wrote:Frustrated Franciscans wrote:The collapse of the Latin Language was in due part to the complete collapse of the Roman Empire to the point where almost everyone in the far reaches of the Empire became illiterate.Have you ever been beaten so terribly that the survivors forgot how to read?
by Grays Harbor » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:09 pm
by Ainocra » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:05 pm
by Sierra Lyricalia » Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:52 am
by Frustrated Franciscans » Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:57 am
Defwa wrote:Have you ever been beaten so terribly that the survivors forgot how to read?
Dupont points out, "The written word was all around them, in both public and private life: laws, calendars, regulations at shrines, and funeral epitaphs were engraved in stone or bronze. The Republic amassed huge archives of reports on every aspect of public life".
When the Western Roman Empire fell apart literacy became a distinguishing mark of the elite, and communications skills were politically important.
A number of factors suggests that certain scribes who were engaged in copyist work in the first seven centuries or so of the Christian era were trained in a very mechanistic form of writing. The use of continuous script, without word breaks, suggests a very mechanical, letter by letter, approach to copying. Petrucci (Petrucci 1995) goes so far as to suggest that such works were copies for the sake of copying, rather than works for proper reading, and that some of the scribes selected for this work were actually the less intellectually able, who were trained in it as a mechanical skill.
by Jean Pierre Trudeau » Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:12 am
Ainocra wrote:protect it from what exactly?
by The Lanthanides » Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:41 am
Three Weasels wrote:Reh? What's "English"? You see, we use universal translators so you can understand us. Our language is not English. We speak Clicqwhysism. Without translators, our language is utter gibberish to the untrained ear. So, why would we want to protect a language that is irrelevant to us?
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by Bok Land » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:30 pm
The Lanthanides wrote:Three Weasels wrote:Reh? What's "English"? You see, we use universal translators so you can understand us. Our language is not English. We speak Clicqwhysism. Without translators, our language is utter gibberish to the untrained ear. So, why would we want to protect a language that is irrelevant to us?
Concurred. We too use a universal translator, and we speak Lanthanic. "English" is not of any relevance to the World Assembly and therefore should not be protected.
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