Quote from: Max Maltezos on October 15, 2025, 07:45:56 AMTalossan should be in greater use (and in my opinion should be the prerequisite for citizenship).

My political party and I certainly agree with the first bit; but there are a lot of people here who will say that as monolingual Americans they just find it impossible to learn to speak any other language, let alone Talossan. They just can't get their heads around the idea that there are different grammar rules.

One of the reasons we recently redesigned the Immigration form is that too many people were filling it out using ChatGPT or similar. What's the point of that? If you can't be bothered writing something, we won't be bothered reading it.

Another time, a citizen entered a Talossan-language poetry contest with a piece which was written in something which was almost, but not quite, entirely not Talossan. That was what ChatGPT told him Talossan looked like.

Estimat Túischac'h, no measures were deemed necessary, apart from keeping cxhn. del'Encradeir in all our best wishes.

Estimat Tuischac'h, the immigration form was rewritten on August 27th.

The Government credits the current boomlet in immigration in part to this minor reform - not only is the new form much easier to navigate, but it has cut down on the use of AI "slop" by removing the trigger word "essay".

Quote from: Joesaurus on October 10, 2025, 05:26:46 PMNice! Do you know if that (and the book of Genesis) were based on an existing translation or more original sources (like the Leningrad Codex or Greek New Testament)?

At the time, King Robert I was a member of the Latter Day Saints faith which believes the King James translation to be divinely inspired, so I'd assume that's where it's from. He is certainly no scholar of the original languages of scripture.

Quote from: ServescDelDomnul on October 10, 2025, 08:12:34 PMHow did the word for "language" become "glheþ" and not something like "lhenga"? Is it of Amazigh origin?

From Welsh iaith/Breton yezh.

I note that the incident where Ben tried to reclaim his citizenship, then abruptly gave up when we asked for an indication that he'd learned anything from his experience, isn't mentioned :D

Quote from: Sir Lüc on October 10, 2025, 08:25:06 AMThe Chancery will comply with both requests it received

All three requests

Former King Robert I translated the first 8 verses of the Epistle of James (note: this is the pre-reform spelling with far more "spaghetti" over the words)

QuoteTXEC, ün servesc da Dïeu és del Segñhôr Iésu- C'hrïost, àls dudësch tribâs dal tvistraziun: Dïeu t'alegra! En consideretz come la pür aleretzâ, quândevri dals diviársen tentaziuns voi ec'hperistent; parç që voi säpetz që la provaziun da voastra féitz encoraxha l'endurançù. Láßetz, që l'endurançù tenadra ça travál entiéir, svo ath voi pëvadretz estarë matürs és complätsilor, nitgil mañc'hînd. Schi iñenviens într-voi mañc'ha la saxheçâ, o fost zemandar da Dïeu, qi zona à toct cün parfüns, és sânc trovar dels focts; és ça serà zonescù à lo. Más quând që o zemanda, o fost credarë sânc la duvitaziun; parç që el qi duvita isch com'iensâ undâ dal már, eißaladâ és xhetadâ par el vînt. Ün ciovec com'acest fost non pensar që o va reçáifar qualse'cosâ del Segñhôr: o isch 'n ciovec dützüc'hoûr és ûnstavál în toct qët o fäts.

"our newest member @Carteir Montagnhă "

x doubt

I've already spoken to the Chancery about the system which gives this political party free advertising to all prospectives. I've spoken about it before, as a matter of fact.

Sorry @Sir Lüc , last minute, can I go down as co-sponsor on this?

Estimat Túischac'h, I thank the member for his question... eventually, coming at the end of a long  speech which I admittedly just skim-read. I doubt I missed anything, since I could probably recite his talking points from memory.

First, may I note the successful immigration of three new citizens in the last month or two! Not exactly a flood; but, if you're honest, an improvement, a sign that we're doing something and it's working. The Member is an honest man, or at least knows what honesty is.

But of course, it's not good enough yet! The Government's ongoing plan to address the immigration downturn comes under four headings.

1. Enacting the consensus proposals of the Royal Commission on Immigration; once those proposals have been established. The Commission was set up precisely to agree on consensus reforms, to take the question of immigration out of the realm of overheated partisan rhetoric - which is why, I, personally did not take part in it. I assumed that if the Distáin took point for the Government, a consensus solution acceptable to all parties would emerge. I may have been wrong, because maybe some participants just wanted the overheated partisan rhetoric.

2. Beyond that, the Government has enacted certain Commission proposals piecemeal. One example would be simplifying the immigration form. Another was a trial run in reviving the "TalossAssistant" process, where cxhn. Tierçéu Rôibeardescù volunteered to help the immigration of someone who lived near her. Again, the Member is an honest man, or at least knows what honesty is, so he will admit that although these have received mixed success at best, but they have been done.

3. Beyond that, one of the problems with the fact that another Member has successfully bullied the Túischac'h out of action is that, in a proper legislature, the Chair would be able to tell questioners that this question has already been answered. And it has been, repeatedly. Here is me to the Member for Sexpestery last month:

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on August 07, 2025, 10:52:10 PMgiven the fact that there is a bustling and busy pipeline of prospective citizens, very few of whom are currently going on to claim citizenship, the problem is not with any alleged deficiency in "recruitment" of prospective citizens. It boils down to what they find when they get here and see what Talossa is like. Clearly, they don't like what they see (as opposed to what they might have read about, on our websites or in other media), and this above all is what the Government is seeking to deal with.

At the moment, the Government is most interested in creating a healthy, non-toxic environment in Talossa.

Part of that is trying not to participate in overheated partisan rhetoric. In discussions with new citizens, I have been struck by their surprise at how virulent Talossan politics are. One big problem in Talossa is when political parties recruit straight out of the pipeline - though this is not technically "broosking", I maintain that it is a predatory strategy to "line up" newbies in pre-existing grudges before they really know what's what. The member will remember that, although this strategy was extremely successful for the TNC once, what it actually did was empower a sex pest. The problem is that if one party does it, the other parties have to do it in self-defence. But I don't think we can solve this until all major parties are run by people who aren't despicable.

4. Beyond that, the Immigration platform on which the URL party will be running in the next Cosa election, is mostly contained in the draft legislation recently submitted by the Distáin / URL Seneschal candidate.

I wish there was a reaction other than "like" on this board :(

No, no, that won't wash. Don't make me go through the old posts to find where, in response to the old FreeDem "cut green and red tape" promises, you waxed lyrical about eliminating "necessary safeguards" and "fine old laws which were fun to make and did no-one any harm".