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[Fauxia]

I know he was. Buzzkill.

I fixed this like an hour ago btw.

I'm pretty sure Fauxia was talking about the spelling of "Tranquil(l)ity". "Yellow" is spelled with two "l"s on both sides of the pond.

I t-totally knew that too! Indubitably....

*Totaly

[Trotterdam]

In #191, option 3 reads "You're kidding, right? [...] I'm not going to let some closed-minded priest tell me what I can and can't do with my blood!", even if, due to the nation's low religiousness, option 2 which features the closed-minded priest doesn't appear.

[The Free Joy State]

In #191, option 3 reads "You're kidding, right? [...] I'm not going to let some closed-minded priest tell me what I can and can't do with my blood!", even if, due to the nation's low religiousness, option 2 which features the closed-minded priest doesn't appear.

This issue has been amended. Now atheistic nations will not receive that issue, but nations eligible will receive the whole issue.

[Daarwyrth]

Today I have come across Issue #1203: The Fandom Menace [Chrimbus; ed: Zwangzug] on another nation. In this issue, I picked the first option, which reads as follows:

“I think this whole debate is just silly!” comments Doug Stallone, taking a break from revising the latest chapter of @@LEADER@@/Reader: Tales from a @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Restaurant. “No one is being harmed in the making of these stories. Everyone knows that this is all just harmless fiction. Now tell me, what do you usually order on a first date?”

The effect line I got was the following:

@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ housewives become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@.

While one could of course argue that these housewives can get flustered at both a male and female Leader, I have a feeling this effect line leans fairly strongly towards making the assumption that @@LEADER@@ is male, which I'd argue infringes upon player autonomy. Perhaps the line could be made more neutral in the following way:

@@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ become unusually flustered when meeting with @@LEADER@@

Or something along those lines. Eliminating "housewives" creates a more neutral image about @@LEADER@@'s gender, I think

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I agree - changed to "novella fans" which also sidesteps the validity issue of whether marriage is legal in the nation as well.

[Daarwyrth]

"Novella fans" sounds awesome!

[SherpDaWerp]

On my puppet Imperial Regiment I, I got Issue 586. Option 3 introduces the Comptroller of the @@CAPITAL@@ District School Board.
Is this a misspelling of Controller or am I missing something?

[The Free Joy State]

On my puppet Imperial Regiment I, I got Issue 586. Option 3 introduces the Comptroller of the @@CAPITAL@@ District School Board.
Is this a misspelling of Controller or am I missing something?

There is such a word as "Comptroller". It's possibly also a Simpsons reference.

[Trotterdam]

On my puppet Imperial Regiment I, I got Issue 586. Option 3 introduces the Comptroller of the @@CAPITAL@@ District School Board.
Is this a misspelling of Controller or am I missing something?

A comptroller is a management-level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.

[...]

The term comptroller evolved in the 15th century through a blend of the French compte ("an account") and the Middle English countreroller (someone who checks a copy of a scroll, from the French contreroule "counter-roll, scroll copy"), thus creating a title for a compteroller who specializes in checking financial ledgers. This etymology explains why the name is often pronounced identically to "controller" despite the distinct spelling. However, comptroller is sometimes pronounced phonetically by those unaware of the word's origins or who wish specifically to avoid confusion with "controller".

[SherpDaWerp]

Huh! That's something I've learned today... probably should have googled it first. Thanks

[Trotterdam]

Cross-posting just to be sure:

The speaker in #1264 3 looks suspicious, I think there's a name missing.

In option 4, @@ANIMAL@@ only capitalizes the first word when it should capitalize every word.

[Pogaria]

Cross-posting just to be sure:

The speaker in #1264 3 looks suspicious, I think there's a name missing.

In option 4, @@ANIMAL@@ only capitalizes the first word when it should capitalize every word.

Thanks for the report. I fixed both problems.

[Trotterdam]

#261 option 1: the "garbageman" can be assigned a female name.

[The Free Joy State]

#261 option 1: the "garbageman" can be assigned a female name.

"Garbageman" or "garbage-man" is generally defined as "a person whose job it is to take the rubbish away", so the definition is not gendered. However, to avoid confusion, I have changed it to "refuse collector".

[Superbunny]

Small grammatical error in "Homecoming Queen" where the opening paragraph reads "The so-called “Terrorist Princess” is heavy with child and nearly due, and is now living in a refugee camp in Bigtopia." Should be "heavy with a child."

[Trotterdam]

Small grammatical error in "Homecoming Queen" where the opening paragraph reads "The so-called “Terrorist Princess” is heavy with child and nearly due, and is now living in a refugee camp in Bigtopia." Should be "heavy with a child."

"With child" might not quite follow normal grammar, but it's an established vocabulary entry.

[Superbunny]

Small grammatical error in "Homecoming Queen" where the opening paragraph reads "The so-called “Terrorist Princess” is heavy with child and nearly due, and is now living in a refugee camp in Bigtopia." Should be "heavy with a child."

"With child" might not quite follow normal grammar, but it's an established vocabulary entry.

The English language strikes again.

[Hediacrana]

Should 428.3, which mentions @@capital@@ FC, be available to nations that have banned sports?

[The Free Joy State]

Should 428.3, which mentions @@capital@@ FC, be available to nations that have banned sports?

Good point. Amended.

[TalAkMaChen]

In issue 390, options 2/3 it should be the

"If we colonise Brasilistan then we'll be doing exactly what its last government did that got us into this mess – sweeping attacks on another peoples’ sovereignty.

-- not

people’s sovereignty.

-- as it's about the nation's (= peoples as in all the members of that particular nation Brasilistan) sovereignity, not the sovereignity of the individual persons (=people).

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36249027#p36249027

[Pogaria]

In issue 390, options 2/3 it should be the

"If we colonise Brasilistan then we'll be doing exactly what its last government did that got us into this mess – sweeping attacks on another peoples’ sovereignty.

-- not

people’s sovereignty.

-- as it's about the nation's (= peoples as in all the members of that particular nation Brasilistan) sovereignity, not the sovereignity of the individual persons (=people).

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36249027#p36249027

From my own perspective (American English), the current text is fine. Using "people" as a singular group means that "people's" is the correct possessive form.

[Trotterdam]

@TalAkMaChen:

No. The possessive of "person" is "person's". The possessive of "persons" is "persons'". The possessive of "people" is "people's". The possessive of "peoples" (used in the context of talking about ethnic groups cultures) is "peoples'". If a word is an irregular plural that doesn't end in "s", then the "s" still needs to be added for the possessive, and so the apostrophe is placed accordingly.

In this context Brasilistan's entire population is being treated as a single group - while there might be multiple ethnic groups within it, those ethnic groups would also have members outside of Brasilistan's borders, and in any case they're not what's being talked about. This is about nationality. Incidentally, if it was talking about plural "peoples", then your version would still be wrong, because you're not supposed to use "another" with plurals.

[Techolandia]

The Issue

After having to poke your nephew with a stick to wake him up, you are beset by a chorus of health experts and disgruntled teenagers complaining about the wave of adolescent insomnia gripping the nation.
The Debate

Drowsy high-schooler Avery Butt jolts awake after finding a microphone in her face. “Dude, this is, like,” she pauses to yawn. “Terrible. The school day is starting earlier and earlier, and that’s making us lose our precious sleep, man! If you, like, forced schools to start later we could all get our sleep and, like, be more attentive in class.”

Are these supposed to be the same person? It seems like they are.

[The Free Joy State]

The Issue

After having to poke your nephew with a stick to wake him up, you are beset by a chorus of health experts and disgruntled teenagers complaining about the wave of adolescent insomnia gripping the nation.
The Debate

Drowsy high-schooler Avery Butt jolts awake after finding a microphone in her face. “Dude, this is, like,” she pauses to yawn. “Terrible. The school day is starting earlier and earlier, and that’s making us lose our precious sleep, man! If you, like, forced schools to start later we could all get our sleep and, like, be more attentive in class.”

Are these supposed to be the same person? It seems like they are.

No. @@LEADER@@ was "beset by a chorus of health experts and disgruntled teenagers". The speaker in option one was one of the disgruntled teenagers.

We wouldn't give your nephew/niece a surname.

[Nova Christianum]

I just got issue No. 559, The Low Aspiration Nation, and option 3 is about implementing slavery, but this nation already has the slavery policy active.