Introducing Nick Korotov [P] [G]

[Eðo Grischun]

Ministry of the Interior
IMMIGRATION APPLICATION



[td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]Application received[/td][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]7 May 2020[/td][/tr][tr][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]Wittenberg account approved[/td][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]7 May 2020[/td][/tr][tr][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]First Witt Post[/td][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]7 May 2020[/td][/tr][tr][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]Eligible for Petition[/td][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]22 May 2020[/td][/tr][tr][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]APPLICATION OUTCOME[/td][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]CITIZENSHIP GRANTED[/td][/tr][/table]

[td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]Official notes:[/td][/tr][tr][td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:3px;"]The Ministry of Interior, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.
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Applicant Name:
@Nick Korotov

Gender:
Male

Year of Birth:
2002

Location:
Russia

Have you been introduced to the Kingdom of Talossa by an existing citizen?
NO

Do you have any previous experience with, or membership in, any "micronations"?
NO

Is it okay if Talossan citizens contact you by e-mail?
YES

Is it okay if Talossan citizens contact you by telephone?
NO

About Myself:
I'm keen on ideas of kosmopolites. Also like cybersport and real sport! I also take care of my health so I run every day. Speak 2 languages (english and russian) and learning another one- esperanto!

Why I am Interested in Becoming a Talossan:
I'm going to popularize sport and e-sport in Talossa!
It's really important to have an e-sport team in the kingdom!
Also it's fun and proudly to be a Talossan!
In the far-far future there will be only virtual states, so Talossa will be the greatest of them because of it's lordly history and culture!

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?
Wikipedia.

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Agreed to verification check: YES
Link provided: YES
Link 2 provided: NO
Display links on public immigration profile:
LINK 1 ONLY / LINK 2 ONLY / BOTH LINKS / DO NOT DISPLAY
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The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true.
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[Ián S.G. Txaglh]

azul! привет, ник! добро пожаловать в талоссу (я не уверен насчёт склонением)!

ci ne lernu esperanton, ci lernu talossaes lingvon ;) el glheth talossán isch pü miglhôr!

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

ci ne lernu esperanton, ci lernu talossaes lingvon ;) el glheth talossán isch pü miglhôr!

[Ián S.G. Txaglh]

ci ne lernu esperanton, ci lernu talossaes lingvon ;) el glheth talossán isch pü miglhôr!

uttermost important argument - schematic auxlangs are no fun :P seriously, first, there are thirteen of them in a dozen. so, why esperanto? why not ido, mundolinco, why not even volapük, latino sine flexione, interlingua, interlingue et cetera ad infinitum nauseamque ;) second, (tldr;) no one really needs esperanto.

since i have been lecturing interlinguistics and submerged myself into the world of linguistics of language contact, i have serious doubts that besides personal affections to it, any auxlang is of any good. people are often seduced by the idealism, apparent purity, neutrality and easiness, but do they ever get those? esperantists et al. seem more and more like cultists to me - always talking how good the esperanto is, but why do people not really listen? why people do not enthusiastically jump on the wagon and get the ride? there are certain psycho- and sociolinguistic factors which prevent that from ever happening (namely absence of real L1 speakers).  if not pushed by force, none such project will ever be successful on its own, because you have to be lang freak to give it any value; common people do not give a heck. otoh, talossan is connected to more or less natural community, it has high potential, if talossa keeps moving on, to become a lang people will use to think about stuff. that why not both :)

[Bitour Scurzniescu]

azul! привет, ник! добро пожаловать в талоссу (я не уверен насчёт склонением)!

ci ne lernu esperanton, ci lernu talossaes lingvon ;) el glheth talossán isch pü miglhôr!

Azul! Привет! Со склонением всё хорошо. Большое спасибо за ваше гостеепреимство! ;)

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Azul! What esports does you play?

[Bitour Scurzniescu]

Azul! What esports does you play?

Azul! I play csgo at very well level, I even played at local state tournaments. It was my main purpose some years, but now it's in the past. Also I play dota 2, osu!, Sid Meier's civilization 5/6 and Valorant. And what games do you prefer?

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

uttermost important argument - schematic auxlangs are no fun :P seriously, first, there are thirteen of them in a dozen. so, why esperanto? why not ido, etc etc etc

Because Esperanto has a global speaker base in the hundreds of thousands, and you get to talk to people who're other than hard-core conlag oddballs.

The biggest problem with Talossan right now is that we have just finished 13 years healing a deep schism about the spelling of the language, and we still don't have a single official grammar (there are two older grammars which are both "good enough" but contradict each other). These things take up far much more work than joining la monda Esperantistaro.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Azul! What esports does you play?

Azul! I play csgo at very well level, I even played at local state tournaments. It was my main purpose some years, but now it's in the past. Also I play dota 2, osu!, Sid Meier's civilization 5/6 and Valorant. And what games do you prefer?

I played Civ 5 a lot a few years ago but not so much anymore. I tried getting into EU4 recently but I wasn't willing to put in the hundreds of hours it would take to learn it.

I've played Rocket League a few times but I'm terrible at it.

[Bitour Scurzniescu]

Azul! What esports does you play?

Azul! I play csgo at very well level, I even played at local state tournaments. It was my main purpose some years, but now it's in the past. Also I play dota 2, osu!, Sid Meier's civilization 5/6 and Valorant. And what games do you prefer?

I played Civ 5 a lot a few years ago but not so much anymore. I tried getting into EU4 recently but I wasn't willing to put in the hundreds of hours it would take to learn it.

I've played Rocket League a few times but I'm terrible at it.

We can throw a mini tournament, CIV is one of the best competitive games and it doesn't require fast internet/close proximity of players. Or at least we can try to play one game with Talossa's CIVers xd

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Azul! What esports does you play?

Azul! I play csgo at very well level, I even played at local state tournaments. It was my main purpose some years, but now it's in the past. Also I play dota 2, osu!, Sid Meier's civilization 5/6 and Valorant. And what games do you prefer?

I played Civ 5 a lot a few years ago but not so much anymore. I tried getting into EU4 recently but I wasn't willing to put in the hundreds of hours it would take to learn it.

I've played Rocket League a few times but I'm terrible at it.

We can throw a mini tournament, CIV is one of the best competitive games and it doesn't require fast internet/close proximity of players. Or at least we can try to play one game with Talossa's CIVers xd

That's true, the only drawback is that everyone has to be available for eight hours at the same time. Did they ever get around to creating a sequential multi-player mode that does not have to be simultaneous?

[Ián S.G. Txaglh]

Azul! What esports does you play?

Azul! I play csgo at very well level, I even played at local state tournaments. It was my main purpose some years, but now it's in the past. Also I play dota 2, osu!, Sid Meier's civilization 5/6 and Valorant. And what games do you prefer?

civ 5 was quite a good game, though i never really fell for civ 6. the change of game mechanics was too far for me.

recently, me, fan of strategic games, have discovered ANNO 1404, nice piece, surely recommendable.

[Ián S.G. Txaglh]

uttermost important argument - schematic auxlangs are no fun :P seriously, first, there are thirteen of them in a dozen. so, why esperanto? why not ido, etc etc etc

Because Esperanto has a global speaker base in the hundreds of thousands, and you get to talk to people who're other than hard-core conlag oddballs.

The biggest problem with Talossan right now is that we have just finished 13 years healing a deep schism about the spelling of the language, and we still don't have a single official grammar (there are two older grammars which are both "good enough" but contradict each other). These things take up far much more work than joining la monda Esperantistaro.

yes, the esperantists are the loudest and biggest club, true. but is it worth joining it? just asking, i never find it attractive. and i seriously doubt the numbers they gave about how many people speaks it and suchs. there is a lack of out-of-sandbox research done on different topics in interlinguistics including the real state of L2 and L1 speakers, cos majority of the work is done from inside and is scientifically dubious, at least.

i cannot promise anything, although you may try rack and thumbscrew, but i would very much like to be involved in contribution to the new edition of ün guizua compläts àl glheth talossan.

[Eðo Grischun]

@Nick Korotov

Prospective citizens are reminded not to change your forum avatar or account display name until full citizenship has been gained.  Many thanks.

[Bitour Scurzniescu]

I don't like the thing that my last name is showed, if you don't mind

[Eðo Grischun]

I've changed your profile name to "Nick K."

Don't worry about your full name appearing in the title or text of this particular thread.  The immigration board is only visible to logged in and registered forum members and not to the public and doesn't get picked up by search engines.

If online privacy is a concern, I recommend that you head on over to the Talossan language sub-board and enquire about adopting a Talossan translation for your name.

[Glüc]

Does online chess count as off-witt correspondence with the prospective citizen? (Hint @Ian Plätschisch )

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Does online chess count as off-witt correspondence with the prospective citizen? (Hint @Ian Plätschisch )

I'd say so.

[Bitour Scurzniescu]

I've changed your profile name to "Nick K."

Don't worry about your full name appearing in the title or text of this particular thread.  The immigration board is only visible to logged in and registered forum members and not to the public and doesn't get picked up by search engines.

If online privacy is a concern, I recommend that you head on over to the Talossan language sub-board and enquire about adopting a Talossan translation for your name.

Am I able to change my name to Talossan one or do I need to wait until I become a citizen?
Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial helped me to find a right translation

[Eðo Grischun]

It *was* the case in the past that prospective citizens had to wait to become full citizens before adopting a Talossan name,

But, both, the Prime Minister and I are of the view that such restrictions on the use of the national language should not exist.

So, yeah, go ahead and use the translation as soon as you want.