Thank you for running this election so well.  Using the database sounds like a pain when you can't get at the back-end, but everything seems to have run smoothly.  Well-done.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on March 31, 2022, 02:47:50 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 31, 2022, 02:37:33 PM
But do we need to know how to pronounce them in order to learn them?

Yes, obviously! I've seen people who didnt know how to spell their own name because to them it's just a meaningless sequence of letters on a screen instead of real words. This country's cultural policy has been neglecting pronunciations of words since forever, when in any other language the spoken word is way more important than the written one.

I dont mean to attack your idea or anything, it's just that I think there are other ways of getting citizens to use Talossan more that might be more effective long-term.

I think this is true, but it's also a consequence of how our citizens relate to each other. The vast majority of our interaction is with the written word, and the vast majority of examples of our language is in the written word. There's very few recordings of anyone speaking it at all. I think that is likely to change more quickly if people become more familiar with it, even if it is still just by exposure to the written word. But all that being said, I would love it if there were more examples of spoken Talossan. Even a few short dialogues posted on YouTube would go a long way.

Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on March 31, 2022, 03:41:19 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 31, 2022, 02:37:33 PM
But do we need to know how to pronounce them in order to learn them? I know all three of those, even if I'm only about half sure of the pronunciations, and that's better than not knowing them at all!

I'll let others weigh in, but I just think it's worth a try.

Alternately, I could put the Talossan name as the first part of the description, followed by the purpose as already present.

You're in charge of Witt, with really broad authority to set it up as you prefer. So it's really up to you. I don't really see any downside to titling the boards in our national language, but if there is significant opposition, I guess this is a good compromise.

But do we need to know how to pronounce them in order to learn them? I know all three of those, even if I'm only about half sure of the pronunciations, and that's better than not knowing them at all!

I'll let others weigh in, but I just think it's worth a try.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on March 31, 2022, 02:00:00 PM
To be honest, I don't see the point of that.

It wouldn't be momentous or anything, but it would give visitors a sense of the language and maybe help encourage people to incorporate it a little bit more into their daily use.

Very much a "can't hurt, might help" kind of thing.

Would it be possible to put the Talossan names for the different boards, and put the English name at the start of the description in quotes?  It might be a little way to sneak in some more glheþ into our daily lives.

Azure, a dragon sejant affronty upon a spoked wheel all Argent.

Tric'hard, I'll do up a different emblazonment with azure later today for you.

-NRH

Quote from: Béneditsch Ardpresteir on March 31, 2022, 03:10:54 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 30, 2022, 10:24:37 PM
Purpure is discouraged, but not prohibited, and the applicant expressed it as being their only preference.

On this I'd be a stickler for rules.
If it's a question of being discouraged, the prospective armiger was never discouraged on that score.
Secondly, he first said Blue and then choose Purple. So there's anyways an affinity to Blue.
On the choice of discouraged colours, I'd probably like to grant them only to such candidates who claims certain affinity based on education, regionalism or something similar and which cannot be replaced.

Many an armiger here might want to replace charges and or colour if them were permitted in the present case. Strict interpretation have been used in the past, and ideally should continue.

I'll respect your decision. But if this is the case, then we should amend the rules to indicate that purpure is actually a forbidden tincture unless the applicant has a specific and demonstrable affiliation with the color. Currently the rules only say that it should be "mildly discouraged," so you're proposing a pretty significant change.

I think the thing where he said another color first was a reference to Monty Python, by the way.

-NRH

There's no real answer without more information.  I can say that he's never been granted these arms as far as I know, not even by himself, so he wouldn't be entitled to bear them in Talossa.  And I can't imagine the College ever granting them in the future to anyone.  So if the idea was to prevent anyone else from having them, I don't think that's a worry.

Purpure is discouraged, but not prohibited, and the applicant expressed it as being their only preference.

-NRH

If there are no objections, then I guess it's on to the Dean!

-NRH

I'm still fiddling with the emblazonment, here and there, but I'm near settled on this crest.  I like the idea of a mural crown.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on March 29, 2022, 07:05:42 PM
Yes, the one associating me with the CH terrorists.

Don't play dumb, AD. I told you over and over again at the time that religious bigotry was one of the motivations for Rough Music.

I see you saying that there, but I honestly don't remember this being any kind of problem, since I thought you were harassing me just because you were the target of criticism from my cartoonists, not because of that.  Looking at the issue now, I guess I'm not understanding how it's a reference to you even now.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3vEJJeQsMdlQmJtVWpDc3lMaEU/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-gtgobtD_vaVPDYLbPV7SjQ

I guess that connection would make sense if you were threatening people, but I don't remember you ever doing so.

EDIT: I just reread that thread you linked.  Ugh.  I'm done with this conversation.  Can't risk you starting that up again.  I apologize for mentioning anything about cartoons, I withdraw my offer, I'm sorry, and never mind

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on March 29, 2022, 06:59:01 PM
The one which directly references the Prophet of Islam, of course

The one published in our Charlie Hebdo edition, after a bunch of journalists were murdered for publishing a picture of Muhammad?