Renouncing my Citizenship.

[Jordan Kennedy]

Hello Guys! I am here to inform you that I wish to renounce my citizenship. I don't have time for this anymore and at the moment I feel im wasting a good space.

Futhermore I have mainly left to focus on my new project..

warforums.enjin.com/

A website and forums I have created and I would like to offer the leaders of Talossa a spot in the website for advertising Talossa in the Political Based Games section.

Thanks for all the short but good times.

[Iustì Carlüs Canun]

Whereas one JORDAN KENNEDY no longer wants any part of the Best Thing Money Can't Buy, and
Therefore the citizenship of JORDAN KENNEDY is hereby terminated

Done by my hand this fourth day of March, in the year of the Common Era two thousand twelve, and of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John the fifth, and of the Independence of Talossa the thirty-third.

[Hooligan]

Well, being busy with things that have nothing to do with Talossa is no reason to renounce one's citizenship. I mean, I am (and we all are) busy with all sorts of non-Talossan things, and that's no reason for me to renounce my Talossan (or U.S.) citizenship. I am also certain that Mr. Kennedy did not renounce his Irish citizenship simply because he "doesn't have time" for it anymore. But if someone is truly not interested in being Talossan, for whatever reason; well, it is nice of him to let us know it.

Hopefully others who find that they have other interests, though, will not think that this in any way should imply that they should not be Talossan.

Hooligan

P.S. Since Talossa is not a "political based game" (or, in fact, a game of any kind), I have politely declined this former citizen's offer to advertise our nation as such on a gaming Website.

[Benedict Stamford]

dude! Weak sauce.

[Gödafrïeu Válcadác’h]

Mar 4, 2012 13:25:04 GMT -6 Iustì Carlüs Canun said:

Whereas one JORDAN KENNEDY no longer wants any part of the Best Thing Money Can't Buy, and
Therefore the citizenship of JORDAN KENNEDY is hereby terminated

Done by my hand this fourth day of March, in the year of the Common Era two thousand twelve, and of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John the fifth, and of the Independence of Talossa the thirty-third.

John V?? Outside of Talossa, perhaps, but he is the first by that name to be King of Almost-Reunited-Talossa and the first of his house to do so. He is just 'John' or 'John I', right?

[Doug Earnest]

I believe the fifth is in reference to the year of his reign.

[Ceváglh Scurznicol]

I think a comma is needed after John

[Eðo Grischun]

Mar 4, 2012 20:25:16 GMT -6 Ceváglh Scurznicol said:

I think a comma is needed after John

No. Simply look at the continuity of each section of the sentence.

Done by my hand this fourth day of March, in the year of the Common Era two thousand twelve, and of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John the fifth, and of the Independence of Talossa the thirty-third.

[Iustì Carlüs Canun]

Also, had I meant "John V," I'd have most likely capitalised "fifth."

[Eðo Grischun]

Mar 4, 2012 15:02:26 GMT -6 Benedict Stamford said:

dude! Weak sauce.

Reminds me of a inside joke me and my friends had a summer or two ago about some dude having thick gravy sauce. Anyway, never mind me, carry on

[Ceváglh Scurznicol]

Mar 4, 2012 22:51:57 GMT -6 Eðo Grischun said:

Mar 4, 2012 20:25:16 GMT -6 Ceváglh Scurznicol said:

I think a comma is needed after John

No. Simply look at the continuity of each section of the sentence.

Done by my hand this fourth day of March, in the year of the Common Era two thousand twelve, and of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John the fifth, and of the Independence of Talossa the thirty-third.

The problem is that English is not usually printed in colours to indicate what phrase, clause, or other part of the sentence goes with what part. Nor does English have case endings to do the same thing grammatically, since they mostly fell off into the English Channel about nine hundred years ago. The only thing it has is punctuation and word order.

You may say that the numbers go with "year", but that is only clear in the case of "the thirty-third", because "Talossa the thirty-third" does not make any sense. With "2012", "Common Era 2012" does make sense, because that is how the years are called in the Common Era. However, there is no confusion because "Common Era" does imply the concept of a year in itself. But "John the fifth" does make sense, especially if one is hearing it being read or is reading it in the normal way rather than trying to closely analyze the sentence the way one does with Latin.

If you have to think afterwards "what is this sentence trying to say", that is a sign that the word order is not the best. The simplest way to make the sentence clear is to insert a comma after "John", which would also indicate for the person proclaiming that he is to pause slightly and not read the clause in such a way so that the listeners will interpret it as "John-the-fifth".

Or if this would be felt to destroy the parallelism of the clauses, then recast them thus:

Done by my hand this fourth day of March, in the two thousand twelfth year of the Common Era, and in the fifth year of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John, and in the thirty-third year of the Independence of Talossa.

And then of course it ends with "Talossa", leaving the hearers with a feeling of national pride rather than with some yawn of an ordinal number.

[D. N. Vercáriâ]

I would put a colon after King John. "And of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John: the fifth".

[Eðo Grischun]

Mar 5, 2012 3:31:59 GMT -6 Ceváglh Scurznicol said:

The only thing it has is punctuation and word order.

and of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John the fifth,

As S:r Canun already stated: John the fifth not John the Fifth. The word order and punctuation (lower case used) reads clear to me, even in one colour. Plus, it's the Talossan way!

[Flip Molinar]

Mar 5, 2012 4:05:11 GMT -6 Eðo Grischun said:

Mar 5, 2012 3:31:59 GMT -6 Ceváglh Scurznicol said:

The only thing it has is punctuation and word order.

and of the reign of our gracious Sovereign King John the fifth,

As S:r Canun already stated: John the fifth not John the Fifth. The word order and punctuation (lower case used) reads clear to me, even in one colour. Plus, it's the Talossan way!

You've never defended anything English so well. ;D

[Hooligan]

I love that this is what this thread became. :-) I mean, isn't this just perfect proof that Talossa rocks so hard? Why would anyone renounce??

Hool