Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
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Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on Jun 11, 2017 16:56:26 GMT -6
Actualmint, éu volt ocsà sâparh acest. "Actually, you may come..." ? Non, acest-là incestoura à "I want to know this, too." "Come" in Talossan isch "irh," el mismeu come "go". (I think I got that right)
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on Jun 11, 2017 14:00:59 GMT -6
Actualmint, éu volt ocsà sâparh acest.
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
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Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 26, 2017 11:28:10 GMT -6
I received my high school diploma last night! I therefore request that Ián Tamorán S.H. promote my membership in the Royal Society from Associate Fellow to Fellow. Gratuleschaziuns!
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 25, 2017 15:38:16 GMT -6
I've never had any problems before that I know of. (And I don't have access to the form itself.) I can see the forum registration, but I don't grant Witt access unless a citizenship application has been filed, of course. I'm waiting to hear more from Iac Marscheir . Haha, he didn't fill it out and send it. He said he did though. Sorry!
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 24, 2017 11:15:52 GMT -6
Pssh... 15-year-olds.
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Iac Marscheir
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 22, 2017 19:53:37 GMT -6
But that's the point: the Imperial system is based on arbitrary measures of people's body parts that happened to be convenient at the time they were codified. That may have suited people living a medieval village in rural England, but it doesn't help us now. I disagree entirely. It is absolutely easier to use the Imperial system than it is the metric system. Sure, the whole base unit system might seem easier to remember than 12 inches in a foot, etc., but try asking some random person on the street in the United States some simple question like how many millimeters there are in a meter, then ask them how many inches are in a yard. The fact is, people will much more easily grasp and remember what they are taught from a young age, regardless of what system it is. But ease of use still lies with the Imperial system, because again, it's much more easy to determine things based on those "arbitrary" measurements you mention than it is to guess off hand the measurement in a metric unit. (By the way, referring back to the "arbitrary" nature of its history doesn't negate its contemporary ease of use.) The people who need to use the metric system in the United States for their careers learn it. The people who don't need to use it don't need it. Cestoûrs use Imperial. Talossan law codifies Wisconsin law. Imperial is not only easier for everyday, but it's also used more everyday in Milwaukee. This bill, Hoppered two years ago, is still unnecessary, and if you ask me, is just a way to take another swipe at the "American" way of doing things. Interesting post here on the subject. I had no thought as to "taking a swipe" at America's everyday methods. I don't think we should immediately switch everything to metric and expect people to adapt quickly. While this could in hypothesis work on a limited scale, it could also cause widespread chaos and confusion. But that's not what I had in mind. Rather, what should happen is this: ASAP, kindergartens switch to using both metric and Imperial in equal frequency. Meanwhile, road signs and other public displays of measurement are changed so that metric and Imperial are both on them. As the kindergarteners progress, each grades' lessons have been pre-prepared to have both metric and Imperial. Then, after this generation has graduated, the next generation takes the same lessons. Then comes the masterstroke: the next generation of kids, whose great-grandparents are probably mostly deceased by now, have lessons only in metric. All public displays of measurement are then changed solely to metric. Ta-da! Now you have a fully metric-ized America, and only the "Imperialist" extremists can complain. BTW, it's not "indoctrination." Kids are perfectly allowed to switch back to Imperial. It'll just be harder, and the rest of the world still won't cater to them. I can say that there are many reasons to switch to metric: ease of overseas travel, helping business, especially industrial operations like car and chemical manufacture and equipment for space travel (the Apollo 13 incident was worsened in part by discrepancies in parts caused by non-conversions by Lockheed-Martin, who used the Imperial system for manufacturing, to metric measurements for NASA), and ease of use in vocations, especially in scientific disciplines and construction, carpentry, auto mechanics, etc. That's a lot of what powers the modern world. But if we're going to go by Wisconsin's laws, that's fine.
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
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Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 21, 2017 10:42:05 GMT -6
But that's the point: the Imperial system is based on arbitrary measures of people's body parts that happened to be convenient at the time they were codified. That may have suited people living a medieval village in rural England, but it doesn't help us now. It's much easier to convert between different measures in metric because 1. different scales of the same type of measurement are achieved by adding or removing 0's, and 2. converting between types of measurement can be done using water (1 cubic centimeter of water = one milliliter of water = one gram in mass of water) or simple, easy-to-memorize-if-you-try equations (e.g. F = ma, N {kg*m/s^2} = kg * m/s^2) allowing for derived units like newtons of force.
Meanwhile, in the Imperial system, just to get different scales of the same measurement, like length, say you start at inches. You gotta remember "Okay, twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile, something like 6 trillion miles in a light-year..."
BTW, can someone please get Anglatzarâ or someone with his abilities on? My dad wants to become a citizen and his account hasn't been approved.
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 20, 2017 13:41:04 GMT -6
Boo to metric, at least for people. After helping put a slip yoke eliminator on a transfer case for a Jeep, which required removing the drive shaft S, removing the (heavy) transfer case, opening it up (removing many bolts along the way), replacing a bell housing on there, and doing the entire thing in reverse again, I can say that not only is metric easier to understand, but it also helps to have an international standard of measurement. Besides, fractions are hard. IT'S MY CAKE NOW! *NOM NOM NOM*
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 20, 2017 7:22:19 GMT -6
Oooooh, I think we have a new all-Talossan idiom for “flipping the bird”: turning around the flag rapidlystorschar* el drapéu or storschar el bicoloreu* storschar comes from Rhaeto-Romance storscher. Why? Because, while we have a word for reversing, we do not have one that means “(to) turn over rapidly”. As the Scúrzniă Gramátică (or the Dictionary, I forgot) states, if new words are to be created, Rhaeto-Romance words should be among the languages to be given priority. Good idea, I like it. But I think this is better: Levitarh el zemi roxh (To lift the red half) It sounds a little more idiomatic to me. I could be just over-inflating my already astronomically large ego, though. Optionally, you could add "del Bicoloréu" to the end. Levitarh el zemi roxh del Bicoloréu, to lift the red half of the Flag.
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 20, 2017 7:06:57 GMT -6
I have a few quarters. Any addresses I can mail them to? XD
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 19, 2017 7:48:00 GMT -6
I note that the eighth covenant in the modified bill prohibits first-cousin marriage. This restriction is, alas, unacceptable. First-cousing marriage is performed in, and is legal in many countries of the world. The various states in the USA have differing views on its acceptability, ranging from "legal" to "criminal offence": however it is estimated that up to 80% (yes, eighty, not eight) percent of all marriages in the world were or are of first cousins. Talossa should not make locally illegal what is accepted in most of the world (in terms of population). I think that all restrictions about who can marry who should be relaxed entirely, and that anybody should be able to marry anyone, so long as the two of them understand any consequences that may result.
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 17, 2017 16:55:39 GMT -6
I suggest you to create a CGCB ("Community: Groups, Channels, Bots") on Telegram. You can create channels to announce the updates, you can use bots and supergroups to connect the channels with the community and so more... There are a lot of things that Telegram allows you and I'm absolutely sure that it can help so much Talossa. And... for those Benitians who live in Veneto... You can apply the Veneto Deca translation made by the Academia de la Lingua Veneta theirself (they have an official channel on Telegram). P.S. Obviously, you can create your own translation: this means you can create a Talossian translation of Telegram. Isn't it absolutely fantastic? I can help you for doing these things: I'm a "veteran" user of Telegram and I know a lot of developers who make bots that can be useful. Holy crap, that is an AWESEOME idea! That'd be amazing!
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 16, 2017 7:53:31 GMT -6
... Does it make us look militant? What if it does a little! We have a military! We are proud of being Talossans! So what? Beware of Talossans raising Red over Green against other Talossans.....
Yeah, that kinda takes the place of flipping the bird, doesn't it.
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Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 11, 2017 7:57:54 GMT -6
This is turning into something of a failure. Uhh... not sure. I shoulda thought this through a bit better. Get back to you in a bit.
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Iac Marscheir
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Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
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Post by Iac Marscheir on May 7, 2017 17:50:02 GMT -6
because-Atatürk-can-go-suck-a-dick-I-promise-I'm-not-12 Assuming you mean the province (because I really do not know what the actual man was up to around the time before, and after, WWI), I, as a Maritiimi-Maxhestian, can and do vouch that not only Atatürk does what you put into words so childish, dear. Apart from that, yes, hooray, weird patriotism or something. Canada is in Atatürk's catchment area. So I rejected that reality and substituted my own. Also, I think the real Atatürk was an amazing guy.
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