Protect The English Language

[Bok Land]

This is the first proposal that was written by the Protectorate of Bok Land, we would appreciate any guidance and support. But for now, debate.

[The Dark Star Republic]

4. Invites member nations to pass legislature within their nation that promotes the protection of proper English.

Glorious.

[Bok Land]

4. Invites member nations to pass legislature within their nation that promotes the protection of proper English.

Glorious.

I'm glad that you find it so.

[The United Colonies of Earth]

Glorious.

I'm glad that you find it so.

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.

[Bok Land]

I'm glad that you find it so.

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.

I agree that languages should evolve. I just don't believe that it should happen from laziness, typos, or ignorance.

[The Dark Star Republic]

I just don't believe that it should happen from laziness, typos, or ignorance.

So is using "legislature" instead of "legislation" laziness, a typo, or ignorance?

[Bok Land]

I just don't believe that it should happen from laziness, typos, or ignorance.

So is using "legislature" instead of "legislation" laziness, a typo, or ignorance?

That was auto-correct, the fourth thing that I believe shouldn't be allowed to evolve a language. It said legislation in my rough draft, thank you for catching that.

[Bok Land]

Is there a way to edit a proposal?

[The Dark Star Republic]

Not once it's been submitted, no.

[Bok Land]

Not once it's been submitted, no.

what do you suggest that I do then?

[The Dark Star Republic]

1. File a Getting Help Request to request your proposal be removed.
2. Don't resubmit it.
3. Post a draft here for comments.

[Three Weasels]

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?

[Hirota]

It's appreciated if you post the body of your proposal in the first post. But because I'm nice:

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.

[Frustrated Franciscans]

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.

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. It is therefore, highly humorous that the only ones who managed to keep the "Latin" language (the Church) were preserving the lowest form of the language (the language of the people) as opposed to the Latin of the nobles and the well educated.

[Frustrated Franciscans]

Now I would recommend a couple of things to the proposal.

I'd drop "real world" references. "English Language" could easily be replaced with "Common International Trade Language" without any problems.

I think you need to add a convincing international reason to the proposal, otherwise people will say "why bother."

Finally, I'll add two fun mistakes I saw on menus.

"The above is served with a ball of soup."

"Chivas Legal"

[Defwa]

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?

[Separatist Peoples]

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?

OOC: Didn't that happen to the US in Vietnam? I mean, I can't see anything else that explains the state of our education.

[Grays Harbor]

No, we do not need to frelling legislate frelling grmmar no matter what frelling language people use predominently.

[Ainocra]

protect it from what exactly?

[Sierra Lyricalia]

OOC: Yff it was gud enogh for Edmund Spenser and his Esteem'd Compatriots, why thenn, by Damn it be gudd enough for Us!

You must tak thees here Rules and fly away
To drop upon a spewynge Volcan' gay,
For ytt is not your Biz'ness to dictate
The Dance of words with wich we Operate;
As well ye may beshout the young'uns on
Thy propertee, to cast them off thy Lawn.
And so I bid ye shov this Old Man's whyn
All up thy dankist hole, where Sunn doth never shyne!

[Frustrated Franciscans]

Have you ever been beaten so terribly that the survivors forgot how to read?

It's not a question of how badly they have been "beaten" but how far they have "fallen."

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.

[Jean Pierre Trudeau]

protect it from what exactly?

The new authors that so graciously come to visit us every summer, and "Herby" declare that "Edcation" should be free everywhere?

[The Lanthanides]

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.

[Shazbotdom]

"This is in no way an International Issue. Can we please file this under 'trash' and shred this? That is where it belongs, anyways."

[Bok Land]

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.

English is the official language of the WA...