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Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 03, 2022, 02:13:19 PM
For those still interested in the Book of Cuisine. I am including a recipe for something called Double Dog Deviled Eggs.
You will have to read the recipe book to see what exactly is on these eggs though...
Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on March 03, 2022, 05:09:13 PMQuote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 21, 2022, 07:12:42 AM
Well, I have been empowered to act on behalf of the Dean, so I'll message him today, but if we don't hear, I'll just do it. I'm not super eager to do that, but we are not in ordinary times and technically it's okay.
I think we should welcome our newest applicant as the Oblivious Auditing Fellow, and as his first task (and seeing there aren't really any other applications for Arms) he should go through the process of requesting and designing his own Coat of Arms. It would be a great way to get his feet wet. Thoughts?
-REH
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 03, 2022, 05:14:16 PM
Well, then by the power vested in me by the Dean and with the agreement of my colleague, I hereby pronounce it so. And I believe the new OAF should get to work as the Rouge Elephant Herald suggests!
Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on March 03, 2022, 05:46:58 PMQuote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 03, 2022, 05:14:16 PM
Well, then by the power vested in me by the Dean and with the agreement of my colleague, I hereby pronounce it so. And I believe the new OAF should get to work as the Rouge Elephant Herald suggests!
To get the best experience, I highly suggest our new OAF follow the steps found here in order to begin his task: http://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=1135.0
-REH
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 03, 2022, 03:37:55 PM
So what's the next step for this? I'd love to be able to support, even if no one wants to place any bets. If it's getting going in April, then should we set up teams?
Also, I think our magnificent organizer here should award himself a fancy job title.
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on March 02, 2022, 02:11:26 PMQuote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on March 01, 2022, 08:47:34 PM
Ok that's actually incredibly helpful to know, because yes, talossan.com is what I was using.
Can I ask why? I thought we'd updated all the links on the Wiki and on talossa.com towards the updated site.
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on March 02, 2022, 02:09:49 PM
That wobbly miéida on the Manaweg flag hurts my eyes, but nice design otherwise
Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on March 01, 2022, 09:02:51 PMI'm leaving it up to them, which leads me to believe it won't be changed, lolQuote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on March 01, 2022, 08:47:34 PM
No worries, gotta learn somehow, right? "Soleighlen" was an honest typo, but "Fiôvâ" is how I've generally seen it on both here and the wiki so I didn't want to do the "Fine Folks of Fiôvâ" a disservice by misspelling their province. I'm assuming at least one of those accents is gone nowadays?
It's a question of stylistic consistency, I guess. "Fiôvâ" is in the pre-2007 spelling that was/is popular with the Republicans even after Reunision, while in the 2007 spelling reform that was popular with the Kingdom it was changed to "Fiova". Nowadays the prefered spelling is "Fiovă", but which spelling to choose is a matter of which style youre using and staying consistent with that. Since you're not using Ă anywhere else (which is valid), it wouldn't make much sense to use it here either. So the two remaining styles would be the pre-2007 version Repúblicáes da Fiôvâ, and the 2007 version Republicaes da Fiova. The latter would be consistent with the other names, but the former would be particularly on brand for Fiovă so the choice is yours.
Finally to get back to the original topic of the thread, I'm a huge fan of this idea here, and I hope it succedes.
Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on March 01, 2022, 06:52:36 PMQuote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on March 01, 2022, 06:11:40 PM
lac (lake) + -istà ("-ist, partisan or professional", according to the Treisour site)
Laceirs is a more obvious translation of what I was aiming for ("Lakers"), but -eir is described as the "doer of an action", and "lake" is not a verb..."lake professionals" felt less accurate (though they would be people employed on a lake), but at the same time more grammatically correct.
In that case, a few things:
The Treisour website (I'm assuming you mean talossan.com?) is outdated. If I had direct access to the site I would update its contents but alas, I don't. The current most up-to-date dictionary is this one, and the most up-to-date grammar is here (caution: pretty technical in places, currently a work in progress)
QuoteBefore adding an ending that begins with E or I to a word stem that ends in C, you have to add an H in between to preserve the hard C sound. This rule, although in force since at least the 90s, was never explicitly mentioned anywhere until last week when I added it to the up-to-date grammar. So the proper translation of "Lake-ist" would be lachistà. (EDIT: Actually it looks like this topic is more complicated than that... I'll have to discuss that with SIGN later.)
QuoteThere are other typos in the team names as well, for exampe "Soleighlen" instead of "Soleiglhen" and the overly archaic spelling of "Fiôvâ". Sorry for dumping all of this info on you all at once though, I feel like I'm nitpicking...
Quote from: Dame Litz Cjantscheir, UrN on March 01, 2022, 05:04:24 PMQuote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on March 01, 2022, 03:15:24 PMQuote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on February 23, 2022, 08:29:35 PMQuote from: Ian Plätschisch on February 23, 2022, 07:28:28 PMQuote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on February 23, 2022, 07:03:15 PMThis would have the unfortunate consequence of leaving formerly Benitian voters represented by a Senator they didn't elect. Maybe the short time period makes that concern not very important though.
Could this perhaps be resolved by "grandfathering" Senators? Think of it this way: Neither Benito's nor Florencia's Senator is removed from office until their original term was up. Yes, this would mean that -- assuming the merger happens during the 57th Cosa -- for a partial Cosa term, Garibaldi would have two Senators. The "balance of power" in the Senate is not (immediately) changed. However, when elections for the 58th Cosa come up, Garibaldi would simply not elect a Senator. The Benitian senator term would end, and then the Florencian senator would be the sole senator from the new province, and Garibaldi would take the place of Florencia in the Senate election cycle.
I'd have to check, but I also think that would involve a change to the OrgLaw also. If that's the case, a referendum would be required.
Might be easy to solve the issue by inserting a Section 12 to Org.III
"Any provinces formed by merger shall be represented by all Senators of the pre-merger provinces in question until the expiration of a term of any of the same. At that time, the citizens of the new province shall select a Senator to represent them, and any remaining pre-merger Senators shall finish the term to which they were elected without being replaced upon the expiration of their respective terms."
This would cause issues with 2017 Org III Sec 1 and the principle of all provinces being equal and having one Senator/one vote each. In effect, the "balance of power" in the Upper House will change. Along with the principle of all provinces having one voice/one vote each and being equally represented going out the window, if we find that one province would be "more equal" (albeit for a limited time) than the others.
Simply put, if a province ceases to exist, so too does its Senate representation. Senators represent and vote on behalf of provinces - not citizens (this is what the lower house represents). It risks fundamentally undermining the Organic construction of the Senate and the balance of power between provinces if organically "non-existent" provinces continue to have a vote in the Senate.
The safest route would be for both Senators to resign and the new province elects a new Senator in line with the 2017 OrgLaw. If this upsets a percentage of the population of the province whose Senator of choice didn't get elected - tough, that's democracy.
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 01, 2022, 03:22:51 PMI like that one, but these are at least based on the provinces as they currently exist. Let's keep that one in mind should it become necessary for the future.Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on March 01, 2022, 02:58:21 PMQuote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 28, 2022, 02:39:50 AM
Any further developments here?
Not yet, I figure the league would probably go starting in like...April sometime? Pictured it as a summer thing. That said, at this point, I would be interested in hearing what people from each province thought of the nickname I had assigned to their team.
Shepherds is perfect for Florencia. But I am, ultimately, partial to the Garibaldi Revolutionaries.
Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on March 01, 2022, 03:58:54 PM
I believe some of the names are misspelled. What does "lacistà" mean?
Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on February 23, 2022, 08:29:35 PMQuote from: Ian Plätschisch on February 23, 2022, 07:28:28 PMQuote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on February 23, 2022, 07:03:15 PMThis would have the unfortunate consequence of leaving formerly Benitian voters represented by a Senator they didn't elect. Maybe the short time period makes that concern not very important though.
Could this perhaps be resolved by "grandfathering" Senators? Think of it this way: Neither Benito's nor Florencia's Senator is removed from office until their original term was up. Yes, this would mean that -- assuming the merger happens during the 57th Cosa -- for a partial Cosa term, Garibaldi would have two Senators. The "balance of power" in the Senate is not (immediately) changed. However, when elections for the 58th Cosa come up, Garibaldi would simply not elect a Senator. The Benitian senator term would end, and then the Florencian senator would be the sole senator from the new province, and Garibaldi would take the place of Florencia in the Senate election cycle.
I'd have to check, but I also think that would involve a change to the OrgLaw also. If that's the case, a referendum would be required.
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 28, 2022, 02:39:50 AM
Any further developments here?
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on February 27, 2022, 01:06:15 PMMic'haglh Autófil became a Talossan citizen (https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=1102.0), celebrating in the traditional manner by starting his own political party.