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Just a quick, question, what languages here are the referred to official languages of the UN? Assuming, of course, that any do hereafter exist...

well we are all speaking english, soo we should probably say that english is one of the main languages all of the rest of our nations languages are translated into.

We of Letila, decendents of the glorious nation of Terra Pvlchra, demand that Kûtêl@uûknêtimû, our language, be added to the list of official languages. It's the most flexible language there is. A word can oftenbe a verb, noun, gerund, participle, adjective, or relative clause.

Junior Minister for Warmongering:

"If Letlia's pathetic language is adopted, we will destroy it!"

Minister for Foreign Affairs:

"We request the UN uses the six languages of a similar body found in an alternate universe... these are:
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and two others..."

Just a quick, question, what languages here are the referred to official languages of the UN? Assuming, of course, that any do hereafter exist...

Great idea for a nation!

Bon chances!

Just a quick, question, what languages here are the referred to official languages of the UN? Assuming, of course, that any do hereafter exist...
On a serious level, we do ask you to try and keep your proposals in English (or bilingual English-whatever-you-speak). That's just so that the general public (most of whom are English speakers) can tell what's going on, and also for moderation reasons.

Je crois que... ah forget it... English is so much easier.

Thank you all for your interest and input regarding my post. I seemed to get a myriad of different responses, but so far, English seems to be the most common response, although we seem to face the same problems as the real UN, as far as deciding what languages need to be official. So, English it is then, but our Government is Bilingually French and English, so this poses no problem for us.

Merci tout de votre intérêt et entrée concernant mon poteau. J'ai semblé obtenir une myriade de différentes réponses, mais jusqu'ici, l'anglais semble être la réponse la plus commune, bien que nous semblions faire face aux mêmes problèmes que le vrai ONU, jusque décider quelles langues doivent être officielles. Ainsi, l'anglais il est alors, mais notre gouvernement est Bilingually français et anglais, ainsi ceci ne pose aucun problème pour nous.

*This last part is for ease of our Francophone audience.*

I say it should be Klingon.

There is a good assortment of languages presented on the "Original Canadian National Anthem" thread in General, for anthems of various nations.
English and French are there, but also Icelandic, Swedish and others.

Nous should speakez le fake French en les nacions uniteds, oui?

Nous should speakez le fake French en les nacions uniteds, oui?

Non.

Enough people speak fake English in the UN already. 6/10 UN proposals are written so poorly as to be nearly unintelligible as it is.

WOULD IT KILL PEOPLE TO USE A SPELL CHECKER AND TO PAY ATTENTION IN AN ENGLISH CLASS ONCE IN A BLUE MOON? :shock:

"If Letlia's pathetic language is adopted, we will destroy it!"

We of Letila, decendents of the glorious nation of Terra Pvlchra, are confused as to why you would want to do that? Our language is far better than French. Spanish isn't even widely spoken enough to justify it being one of the official languages of the UN.

"If Letlia's pathetic language is adopted, we will destroy it!"

We of Letila, decendents of the glorious nation of Terra Pvlchra, are confused as to why you would want to do that? Our language is far better than French. Spanish isn't even widely spoken enough to justify it being one of the official languages of the UN.

Response by Esamopian Vice-Premier:

"We would not really destroy you... if you saw who said the statement you'd see its some junior minister who had a bit too much free time *whips Jr. Minister with lash,* you are in no real danger, but we also note that no one else has endorsed your request for your language to be adopted."

Perhaps we make Russian the official language, that way nobody except those select few who can understand Russian can read the proposals. We'd get so much more done.

Vladimir Borislav, Chairman
Объединенные Социалистические государства совета KoRT
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For all future references, the Russian part of my Sig reads: "The United Socialist States of the KoRT Soviet"

|Xomum@âûlkakuma el@ema,
ien|ê'ufîmu x`imeftêûmu
mlutski @ix`atêl@u|x'îmi fê|xoon!îqlîmi
metkîðikî m@omluqlîmi,
tniquqsekame.

We of Letila, decendents of the glorious nation of Terra Pvlchra, are vexed as to how you can't see how cool our language is. It has 20 clicks. How can that be lame?

Wow! This issue is 'bout as excitin' as watching Kudzu grow on a cold day!

We Drunken NASCAR fans think y'all oughta adopt "Redneck" as one of the official UN languages!!!

Think 'bout it for a spell...it might be interesting.

We of Letila, decendents of the glorious nation of Terra Pvlchra, must point out that Redneck sounds unsophisticated. Our language is the language of such greats as E||'esiumi and Fê|xomun@âûlkakumi. It has a very advanced verb inflection system.

Nous should speakez le fake French en les nacions uniteds, oui?

Non.

Enough people speak fake English in the UN already. 6/10 UN proposals are written so poorly as to be nearly unintelligible as it is.

WOULD IT KILL PEOPLE TO USE A SPELL CHECKER AND TO PAY ATTENTION IN AN ENGLISH CLASS ONCE IN A BLUE MOON? :shock:

Oh, but that's just part of the joy of living in a post-literate society.... :roll: :roll: :roll:

I think English should be the official language. But that's only because I speak it. :P

Je parle francais. Et toi?

Actually I'm in French 1, so I barely know any. :?

We of Letila, decendents of the glorious nation of Terra Pvlchra, ask if English can match our language's detail in it's words, many of which define themselves.

In the real life, the UN official langages are:

Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish


By these languages, you cover almost every country on earth and also much of the population.

America is all about English, Spanish and French (except for brazil wich is portuguese)

Africa is almost all english or French as a colonial language.


English is obviously the most evident and useful language to speak today, but it could change.

Spanish had it's golden age when the kingdom of spain dominated all the americas.

French had it's golden age when Napoleon had all Europe under his feets.

Now it's english, i'm glad to speak it, it's really usefull.

Obviously, even if I will always submit an english resolution, I would like to be able to post a billingual resolution English/french. I'm able to do it, so why avoid it?

I think that we should have the same UN official languages here than in the real life.


Évidemment, un peu de pratique ne ferait de mal à personne. Et en diplomatie, vaut mieux savoir le plus de langues possible! ;)

On peut toujour essayer: :roll:

Yo soy un latino del norte. Soy de la provincia de Québec. Hablo espanol un poco. :wink:

Junior Minister for Warmongering:

"If Letlia's pathetic language is adopted, we will destroy it!"

Minister for Foreign Affairs:

"We request the UN uses the six languages of a similar body found in an alternate universe... these are:
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and two others..."

The two others are Russian and Mandarin Chinese

I think it'd be a nice RP touch if proposals were all or mostly written with a second UN language along with English.

Glad to see that there are others who appear to support Francais as an official language of the UN. I am meeting much discourse from it in my own Region of the North Atlantic, my country being that of Quebec Nouveau, which has a bilingually French and English diplomatic policy, but other NA nations fail to recognise French, as "A language of Intelligent Nations" But what do they know? Perhaps they are just jealous that they ae not us? HAHA, but we are joking! Sad thing really, that we are meeting with the same linguistic barriers that the true Quebec is.

The KoRT Sovjet acknowledges French as a semi-universal language, but unfortunately it is not a standard requirement in our nation. We take advantage of the Russian and English sides of the UN languages.

Seventh Undersecretary for International Affairs,
Foreign Ministry,
Esamopia,

"To all nations, please feel free to put your proposals in any language and in any dilect, however, we do recommend that the proposals are also translated in English, especially if your language is not commonly spoken.

Please note that any resolutions in French, for example, would probably be easy to translate using any free translation software available on the Internet, however, for the ease of the Delegate or UN member voting on the resolution, it may be wise to have the proposal in English because so many people speak it."

-This has been a written statement from the Foreign Ministry of Esamopia.

Seventh Undersecretary for International Affairs,
Foreign Ministry,
Esamopia,

"To all nations, please feel free to put your proposals in any language and in any dilect, however, we do recommend that the proposals are also translated in English, especially if your language is not commonly spoken.

Please note that any resolutions in French, for example, would probably be easy to translate using any free translation software available on the Internet, however, for the ease of the Delegate or UN member voting on the resolution, it may be wise to have the proposal in English because so many people speak it."

-This has been a written statement from the Foreign Ministry of Esamopia.

Wasn't French at one time the universal language of diplomacy?
What happened to that?
N'était-elle pas française par le passé la langue diplomatique
universelle ? Qu'est arrivé à celui ?

Yes, indeed, what did happen to French as the language of Diplomacy? Self-indulgent Americanism happened to it, coupled with a sense of Xenophobic intolerance, and the resistence of 1/5 of the World's populous proved just too strong. Hence, English as become, (ironically, as the saying is, meaning French Language) the Global Lingua Franca. God, I sorrowfully despise so much about this country. I live here, but it doesn't mean I like it.

We of Letila, decendents of the glorious nation of Terra Pvlchra, are willing to show the benefits of using our language. The main one is the ease at which an unfamilier word can be figured out. Take the word for turtle, n|uqatlî||xîmi, which breaks down into n|u for a tendency to for something to occur, qatlî for a reptilian or slick animal, ||xî is the root word around which the others center and means to withdraw to safety, and mi indicates that the verb is performed by a 3rd person, singular, animate noun, which is a compound word with the verb in this example. Compare that to English's words that work this way, such as chlorophil. If that word is broken down, it really just means green-plant. That doesn't tell you very much.