Does that mean that the next Cosa term will be shortened to match the schedule?

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on March 13, 2025, 02:47:17 AMAwww man, has that changed since Talossan 2.1? I definitely used to spell it oðreux when I was writing Qator Itrìns

Only slightly. The Treisour has it as öðreu, and ever since it was determined that D next to R is always pronounced like ð, it's been ödreu.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on March 12, 2025, 04:25:24 PM"es oðreux" -> "es oð." ?

It's ödreux, not oðreux. Hence "es öd."

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on March 02, 2025, 01:43:15 AMMay not be a bad idea to ask @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP for a glheþ check:

Quote3. The motto of the Province is "Sürvixhilind Delmás l'Espuendă", or in English, "Standing Watch Along the Water's Edge".

It should probably be adelmás, or perhaps lalungă dal espuendă.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on September 29, 2024, 03:21:24 PMScheduling aside, a scoring system that is properly weighted between the four different sports would need to be devised. I don't know how to do that, but luckily I have till March next year to figure it out...!

Yeah, I'm not sure if I can set everything up in time this year. Sorry about that.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on February 21, 2025, 04:18:11 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 20, 2025, 11:35:34 PM@Sir Lüc Mr. Secretary, would you be so kind as to change the name of our party board to Green Party?

On it!

(Btw, the correct Talossan translation would be "El Partì Virt")

Double correction: partì is wrong. It should be el Parti Virt.

RZ20: Austanéu
RZ21: Per
RZ22: Per
RZ23: Per
RZ24: Per
VoC: Üc

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on January 30, 2025, 06:13:19 PMOkay, so the second lesson is sorted: https://talossan.net/lesson-two/

I plan on adding more practice problems, like I did already with the first lesson (https://talossan.net/lesson-one/), but want to make sure I'm not on the wrong track.  I had to write this one without my book, so I'm less confident.  @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP , anywhere I went wrong?

Lesson 2 seems to be fine on first glance, but I did find some errors in Lesson 1's hints and bonus sentences.

- the bigger hint for "Ian will run to the park." still implies àð el
- coriarha is future tense, not past tense
- parc does not mean store

Got my card today, it looks great!

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on January 19, 2025, 05:29:51 PMWouldn't be averse to electing only half the Cosa each time, if that would seal the deal for unicameralism

How would that be compatible with proportional representation?

I'll run it through the math here, as far as I understand the situation, assuming a highest remainder apportionment method:

There are 5 seats in total, two of which provincial.

Province A is won by the X Party candidate. (12 X vs. 10 Y)
Province B is won by an independent. (10 X vs. 11 Y)

Because independents don't belong to any party, they are excluded from the proportional apportionment. Which is to say, 4 seats are to be divided between the parties X and Y.

Without German-style independent annullment,
X is entitled to 22 / 43 = 51% ≙ 2.05 --> 2 seats.
Y is entitled to 21 / 43 = 49% ≙ 1.95 --> 1 seat.

One seat is left over, which goes to Y due to their larger remainder, yielding a parliament of 2 X, 2 Y and 1 independent. Since the independent candidate is heavily associated with the Y Party, this would be an unfair result.

Now, with German-style independent annullment all 11 Y Party voters from province B are disregarded since the independent candidate they voted for won the province, which means:
X is entitled to 22 / 32 = 69% ≙ 2.75 --> 2 seats.
Y is entitled to 10 / 32 = 31% ≙ 1.25 --> 1 seat.

Again one seat is left over, but this time it goes to X because their remainder is bigger. The resulting parliament is thus 3 X, 1 Y and 1 independent, perfectly proportional.

If I made any mistakes here, let me know.

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on January 14, 2025, 03:21:08 PM

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on January 05, 2025, 10:14:32 PM(5): Article IV, Section 13 is created to read:

QuoteProvincial MCs will not be eligible for award of any party seats during a Cosă term unless they appear on a registered party list for the most recent General Election.

This doesn't really address the problem.

Let's say there are two provinces.
In province A 12 voters support party X and 10 voters supports party Y. In province B 11 voters support party Y and 10 voters support party X.

There are 3 party list seats and 1 provincial seat for each province.

Party X runs a candidate for the provincial seat in both provinces.
Party Y does not run provincial candidates but instead two voters who support party Y nationally run as independents.

In province A the party X candidate wins. In province B the independent candidate wins.

For the party list seats if this were done without MMP Party X would just get 2 seats and party Y would get 1 seat, because party X has 22 voters and party Y has 21.

However party X already has a provincial seat and party Y doesn't so to make it more equal party Y gets 2 seats and party X gets 1.

As a result Party X has more supporters, but Party Y's supporters get more cosa seats (although strictly one of them is an independent, but being a party Y supporter they vote with party Y most of the time).

In Germany, party list votes of voters who voted for a successful independent are annulled to prevent "double counting". I believe this would solve your problem.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on January 13, 2025, 02:45:36 PMI am pleased to report that the first batch of IDs were sent out over the weekend. If those in this batch will forgive another ping, I would like to notify them that their IDs are on the way and request that they inform the Ministry when their cards arrive. [...]

What's the expected delivery time to Germany? I tried googling it and the range was from anywhere between 3 and 20 business days.

I moved the page properly, so the typo is also fixed in the URL. (I didn't even know I had that power!!)

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 21, 2024, 10:08:54 PMWhy?  Wouldn't that be "Ian has gone to the store," the present perfect? "Ian went to the store" is a simple past statement.

Talossan doesn't strictly separate the two, but personally I think using veneva was perfect fine here.