by The Forest of Aeneas » Sat May 21, 2022 2:16 pm
by The Forest of Aeneas » Mon May 23, 2022 7:56 pm
by Juansonia » Tue May 31, 2022 3:35 pm
@@RANDOMNAME_3@@, a prominent right-wing opponent of free speech, enters your office without any permission or warning. '@@RANDOMNAME_1@@ is right in that you ought to stop this disgrace upon @@DEMONYM@@ language, but you need to go even further! @@NAME@@ needs to prosecute and punish anyone caught using imprecise language. And yes, @@LEADER@@, that includes ?????. Oh, and while you're at it, you may as well prosecute opponents of the glorious @@PRETITLE@@. Make @@NAME@@ great again!'
Effect Line: citizens are routinely arrested for speaking @@DEMONYM@@ language
Option Validity: No prisons
Space Squid wrote:Each sin should get it's own month.
Right now, Pride gets June, and Greed, Envy, and Gluttony have to share Thanksgiving/Black Friday through Christmas, Sloth gets one day in September, and Lust gets one day in February.
It's not equitable at all
Gandoor wrote:Cliché: A mod making a reply that's full of swearing after someone asks if you're allowed to swear on this site.
It makes me chuckle every time it happens.
by Candensia » Tue May 31, 2022 4:01 pm
The Free Joy State wrote:Time spent working on writing skills -- even if the draft doesn't work -- is never wasted.
by The Forest of Aeneas » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:49 pm
Candensia wrote:This looks like an NS issue, but the topic isn't believable to me. It doesn't seem likely that someone utilizing a double negative and other "imprecise language" would trigger a national debate all on its own.
Good topics are often (but not always) situations that real nations might reasonably encounter and address at the national level.
Do keep writing. Your technical skill is apparent and it will serve you well here.
by Verdant Haven » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:03 pm
by The Forest of Aeneas » Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:29 am
Verdant Haven wrote:There's potential here, but I think the issue will need a bit of focusing and development to get to where it needs to be.
Verdant Haven wrote:- The first speaker sounds like they are trying to protect the vernacular language... by changing the vernacular language. I would probably (as above) have them a bit more worried about protecting the mainstream form from influence by the vernacular, rather than changing the vernacular itself.
by The Orwell Society » Mon Jun 06, 2022 1:22 pm
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by Australian rePublic » Tue Jun 14, 2022 2:57 am
by Electrum » Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:09 am
by Australian rePublic » Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:20 am
Electrum wrote:imo this is a non-starter. You can't mandate the properties of a nation's language. Many languages (in fact the majority) do not have double negatives (i.e. negative concord).
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