Dama Miestra, I'm a beardless teetotaling liberal, but everyone should have their own fun - even if it's not the same as my fun. Goofy jokes about liking beer a lot seem completely harmless.

Pol: for some years, many prominent citizens ran in the same circles, and that's what's being referenced. It's not really the case anymore, but some bad feelings remain. You certainly did nothing wrong!

It was probably pretty surprising to find out we already had a space program before, eh?

While some jokes are offensive, it's beyond me why anyone would be angry at the silly pun name "BEER" for an agency.

I think it'd be cool to see a revival of BEER, whether or not it keeps the same name.  It's not frivolous or unattainable -- it's awesome, and we've done it before!

Thank you for your request, which is in good order.  Different shades of blue are not done, but emblazonments have no standardized hues -- if you end up with azure arms, it can be any shade you wish.  The Green Town Pursuivant, @Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat , is assigned to handle this request.

-SVA

Sure.  I wasn't trying to stop you or anything, just giving you information.

No, you can use it. It's not currently being used. I was just thinking that if I was in your position, I would want someone to tell me that "RTV" had a long history.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on January 03, 2025, 11:29:41 AMAzul, sorry for bothering again... Could the title of this page be changed? I've made a rebranding of what's it about (Radio-Television Talossa).

Just so you're aware, Regipäts Televiziun was for many years the state-run radio and television station.  It was also abbreviated as RTV.  Its use has lapsed, but it was employed for many years, so it wouldn't be a huge surprise for the government to revive it.  I'm not aware of any plans to do so, but I thought you might want to know before you settled on a name.

Just as a note for the public: I was told to wait for now, since someone else is planning on doing their own introductory series of lessons.  I will leave up my first lesson over at Talossan.net, of course.

It seems like the decision has already been made! I'm glad we're moving forward.

Does anyone else know how to program in Django?

I hereby appoint the Long Fellow as the new Prevuost of the Royal Academy of Vexillology, and task him first with recommending an appropriate glheþ name for the Academy, probably selecting from among those suggested.

-SVA

@Miestră Schivă, UrN , do you anticipate that the government might want to continue with this series? Tafi says that there's no problems with the language in this first one,  and the Government has been promoting it, but I know that's not the same thing as committing further.

Grant funds might be exhausted for this round, but I'd be happy to plan another three lessons to do soon, plus add some more exit ticket problems at the end of the first one. I thought the next lesson could focus on teaching grammatical gender, but don't want to get going if it's sure there's no interest at all. Also, I should hunt up the flashcards and other resources and link them.

Well, I definitely hear you. And that's the approach I tried to take - not based in linguistics, but based in education. Once folks have a foundation, they can learn the finer points. Or even if they never get that far, they will know the basics of how translation works and can take further steps if they ever choose to.

Neat!  I put up some info on a resources page on that site, too, including some short lists of useful vocab words.

"I wash my hands of this. You have fun."

Yeah, that does seem like it's for the best.

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on December 22, 2024, 09:57:36 AMIt really isn't arcane. Aspects, being nigh-omnipresent in any language that uses them, are pretty much the first thing you learn about the past tense in any natural Romance language class (except probably Spanish), even if they don't call it by name.

As a concept, they depend on knowledge of tenses in general and the concept of declension/conjugation, which in turn depend on the concept of parts of speech. It is an arcane point for a beginner, so there's no sense introducing the extra complexity unless there's a pretty good reason. If my translation is accurate, even if it's not stylistically to your taste, then I'm not going to change it, although I appreciate the advice. Please keep it coming, and definitely keep helping me!

Okay, so it's a stylistic preference.

Well, that would be a really strange thing to emphasize in a language course for beginners.  It relies on a ton of prior linguistics knowledge, it focuses on an arcane aspect of the translation, and it's not easy to understand for someone who has never translated much of anything in their life.

The first language lesson is, like, "hey remember those 'verb' things you learned about when you were twelve?"