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[Draft]For Want Of A Better Word

Postby Drasnia » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:05 pm

Title: For Want Of A Better Word

Description: The @@CAPITAL@@ Chronicle released what was supposed to be a humorous article discussing how some common words are misleading, including how peanuts are not nuts and how strawberries are not in fact berries at all. Unfortunately, many took the article quite seriously and have opined for change.

Validity: all

Option 1: "A bean, or not a bean," recites @@RANDOMNAME@@, self-professed teacher of Oration and Elocution and while dressed in gaudy stage clothes, "that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler for the citizen to suffer the indignity of ignorance or to take back the proper usage of language. Indeed, we must make haste and ensure that no word - nay, nothing at all - is ever spoken incorrectly according to its well-defined meaning."
Effect: misusing a word can be punishable by death

Option 2: "You can lead @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ to water, but you cain't make it drink," philosophizes a rustic janitor who has been listening to the teacher's impassioned plea. "If'n we cain't get folks to speak right, than we'll hafta make the language change instead. Tell all them scientists that peanuts are nuts and strawberries are berries. We cain't be wrong - the language hasta be."
Effect: scientific dogma changes faster than the wind

Option 3: "Both of those proposals are utterly unconscionable!" exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of @@NAME@@'s leading scientists, "especially that post-modernist tripe! The answer to this quandary is mandatory scientific for everyone, from birth to death. Six hours a day should be sufficient. No longer shall we languish in lingual ignorance and - perhaps - we can pave the way for future scientific progress instead.
Effect: children quote medical in an attempt to get out of eating brussels sprouts for dinner
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Postby Trotterdam » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:15 pm

You appear to be missing a couple of nouns. Also, having the death penalty is a flag, so you shouldn't have an option introduce it without any warning that it's going to do so.

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Postby USS Monitor » Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:32 am

:lol:

Well-written overall, but I think you left out a word:

Drasnia wrote:The answer to this quandary is mandatory scientific education for everyone,
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Postby Fauxia » Sat Oct 28, 2017 5:34 pm

I don’t have anything to say, except that I really, really, really like this.
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Postby Australian rePublic » Sat Oct 28, 2017 8:58 pm

That might work for fruit and veg, but what about words like tablet which has nothing to do with medicine? And hot dogs which in fact contain no dogs?
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Postby Baggieland » Sun Oct 29, 2017 2:24 am

Just want to repeat what has already been said. 1) This is a really good issue. 2) You can't use the death penalty like that.

For option 1 effect, how about: jokes that contain homonyms have been outlawed.

Not that great, I know. Or you could go with school style punishments: lines, detention, something like that.

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Postby Victoriaans Nederlands » Sun Oct 29, 2017 2:28 am

I thought of one. It's not exactly death penalty for Issue 1, but what if... we can imply it or something?

Effect:

Those that uttered, "I would rather die than to..." tend to disappear overnight.

Other than that, it's quite a great issue. :P
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Postby Trotterdam » Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:23 pm

Victoriaans Nederlands wrote:I thought of one. It's not exactly death penalty for Issue 1, but what if... we can imply it or something?

Effect:

Those that uttered, "I would rather die than to..." tend to disappear overnight.

Other than that, it's quite a great issue. :P
#712 1. people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support @@LEADER@@

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Postby Candlewhisper Archive » Mon Oct 30, 2017 1:51 am

Trotterdam wrote:
Victoriaans Nederlands wrote:I thought of one. It's not exactly death penalty for Issue 1, but what if... we can imply it or something?

Effect:

Those that uttered, "I would rather die than to..." tend to disappear overnight.

Other than that, it's quite a great issue. :P
#712 1. people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support @@LEADER@@


Hey that was my effect line! Well, stolen from Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett.

A fun issue, but clearly one that any sane nation would dismiss, as there's not even the semblance of a sane option here. It's:

1) Crazy censorship
2) Crazy ignorance
3) Crazy oppression of civil rights
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