Hi all,

I had an idea the other day for a way to perhaps help keep people checking in on the regular -- I am aware that Talossa has a (fantasy) football league, or at least did in the past. This is a similar idea, but it's not fantasy sports, but rather...fictional sports, if you will?

Long story short, there are programs out there called "scorinators" -- basically, they'll simulate pretty much any sport you want. Put in your teams, give them skill values, and it will generate semi-random results. Granted, these are teams that exist only on paper -- there are no rosters, no real people serve as managers, no trades to be made. But I guess I was just thinking that if nothing else we could have a league of some sport or another where each province has a team, something people can hang their hat on and hope to see do well (and more importantly, maybe want to check in on occasion to keep tabs on).

As an example -- using my favorite sport, naturally: hockey -- I came up with teams for a Liga Talossan de Hachi:

Capitais d'Atatürk                   (Atatürk Capitals)
Aquilas da Beniuto                   (Benito Eagles)
Bombardas da Cézembre                (Cézembre Bombers)
Republicans da Fiôvâ                 (Fiôvâ Republicans)
Pastours da Florencia                (Florencia Shepherds)
Soleiglhen da Maricopa               (Maricopa Suns)
Lachistaes da Maritiimi-Maxhestic    (Maritiimi-Maxhestic Lakers)
Rexhitais da Vuode                   (Vuode Royals)

Go easy on me, I'm still getting the hang of pluralization...

Quote from: Béneditsch Ardpresteir on February 12, 2022, 04:39:52 AM
Azul !

Thanks for your interest in joining the College.

However, you would have to join as a Fellow, after passing an otherwise easy test.

The recent promotions as 'Heralds' were of one long-serving member of the College, whilst the other had often helped the members in an unofficial capacity over the years.

Look forward to hear from you.

Dean BenArd

Of course! I understand I would need to put in my time, the title there is irrelevant as far as I am concerned :)

Quote from: Istefan Perþonest on February 11, 2022, 11:19:05 AM
Benito's provincial assembly elections are by party, but it doesn't have to be a registered national party. Just pick a "party name" and announce you're running under that banner.

Well, in that case, I'll be running as "leader" of the Parti da Reformaziun (assuming my Talossan is correct there, the Reform Party, no?)

Within Benito specifically, platform involves (A) looking into a repeal of the Florencia split, (B) a possible merger with Vuode if (A) doesn't go through, and (C), some updated provincial symbols (especially if (A) does happen).

I would like to submit my application to join the college as a herald. I've long been interested in heraldry, and have begun working on a few unrelated-to-Talossa heraldry projects in my free time. Any help I can give, I would be more than happy to.

Quote from: GV on February 03, 2022, 10:44:43 AM

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on February 03, 2022, 10:03:01 AM
Are there any specific associations of colors with ideologies in Talossan politics? Like, purple with peculiarism, for example.

Good question and one no-one has ever really addressed before...

Talossan politics does not represent a single social, political, or societal continuity.  To be all-too-brief, the demise of the Conservative Loyalist Party in the Kingdom ca. late 2005 or in 2006 is the demise of the old continuity going back to Talossa's beginnings.

In Talossan political terms, that event represents a complete break in Talossan political history. And with that, we have two separate epochs in Talossan political history: 1979-2005 and 2005-present.  The old CLP was the old order, and the RUMP's filling the power and cultural vacuum at that time represents the beginning of the new order which persists to this day.

I mention all of this because an overt color-association with Talossan political ideologies was never really thought about in completely overt terms in the old or new orders, even to today. 

The Progressive Conservative Party (PC) existed from 1985 through ca. 2005 when JJ, its last member, finally dissolved it for good.  The PC was for many years the Party of Ben, JJ, Eiffler, Kane, etc. (incl. yours truly).  It also, at least in Ben's and JJ's minds, mimiced to an extent the ethos of the British Conservative Party, whose overt color continues to be blue. 

PC/blue is the one overt color association in Talossan politics of the old order, though combinations of red and green exist in many parties throughout both political orders.  The ZPT's colors were red, white, and green (JP can confirm this).  The third Liberal Party (dissolved ca. 2001 after the Second Mass Exodus) used the colors yellow and black.

Thus, old-order Talossan politics had blue as the color of conservatism, but in other parties, red was a time or two used as the color of 'challenge to the status quo', but I would need to do more research.

A stark change to this pattern was the revival of the Talossan Black Hand Party in autum 2002, Ben Madison's arch-conservative foil to the PC, which used the colors black-and-white.

In new-order Talossan politics (2005-present), there is no clear association between party colors and ideology save one: green and red being used almost ubiquitously to represent Talossan patriotism.

Hope this helps,

GV

It does indeed help! Sort of confirms what I had suspected (namely, that apart from showing patriotism, the colors generally have no association). Thank you!

Are there any specific associations of colors with ideologies in Talossan politics? Like, purple with peculiarism, for example.

How would one go about registering for the Assembly election?

On a related note, how does one go about filing to run for a provincial assembly?

(And since Benito has you vote for parties — what if I wanted to run as an independent?)

Then at least progress is being made!

Though from what I understand, that's just one of many things that has been improved, lol

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on January 27, 2022, 10:30:17 PM
That seems to be our main issue here. We all seem to have extensive knowledge of the technical parts of the language, but struggle with how we're going to teach it to people. I hope I can combine my vocabulary primer on Memrise with your Grammar outline, and we'll see if that helps!


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At least speaking as a newbie...I think part of what makes people hesitant to learn Talossan is the orthography. On the one hand, the gratuitous X's help make Talossan unique, but they also steepen the learning curve, I think...

Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on January 29, 2022, 10:35:31 AM
Congratulations and welcome to Talossa!

Thank you!

Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on January 28, 2022, 08:39:17 AM

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on January 26, 2022, 10:40:31 AM
Not sure if there's something I'm supposed to do at this point to help this move along, but if so, just let me know.

I'm still waiting on you to complete the final step. Please check your DMs.

Done! :)

Not sure if there's something I'm supposed to do at this point to help this move along, but if so, just let me know.

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on January 24, 2022, 09:26:34 AM
I know i am fairly new to the country but i do think there should be a place for the Kings signature on the card. Sort of an official stamp of approval

Or some sort of stamp/seal. Yes, I know the arms are on the back, but if I recall correctly does Talossa not have a full achievement? (A "greater" coat of arms, if you will.)

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on January 21, 2022, 03:01:08 PM

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on January 21, 2022, 11:33:12 AM
It is good to know Talossan grammar is much like French though, having taken French way back in high school.

It's close enough (though not quite accurate) to think of Talossan as kind of a dialect of French, with lots and lots of loan words from the most random languages around the world. The biggest difference to my mind (French->English translator here) is that Talossan doesn't have a subjunctive mood.

Would you say it should?

...I'll see myself out.