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Should all UN proposals with spelling or grammar errors be dropped?

If this law is true, then why is there a proposal being voted on at this time that has spelling/grammar errors?

If this UN is going to work we must abide by the laws, which we make.

All proposals, which have grammar or spelling errors, must be dropped.

Yes they should. If you're going to submit a proposal at elast take the time to use proper grammar and spelling. It's not like most of the proposals that come up for vote have much thought behind them...you can at least take the time to spell them correctly.

Yes they should. If you're going to submit a proposal at elast take the time to use proper grammar and spelling. It's not like most of the proposals that come up for vote have much thought behind them...you can at least take the time to spell them correctly.


Will that be based on US's or the UK's,( or some other country) spelling of some words?
Also, which country's grammar is correct?

When people are going to understand what's being said anyway, why would misspelling of a word or improper grammer even matter?

Please read Enodia's sticky in this forum.

This has been an OOC post.

Ms. Googleplex would be very happy to see properly spelled resolutions with proper grammar. However, this proposal changes game mechanics by calling for the introduction of an automated system. Please see Enodia's sticky.

Sincerely,
Javier Hootenany
Undersecretary to the United Nations Ambassador for NationStates Rules and Regulations
Community of Gurthark

Few points:

1) There may be some here who's first language is not English and therefore they may not be the best in its usage.

2) How grammatically incorrect are we talking here? Are we talking English class or just everday usage. After all, do we really want to erase a proposal because a gerund was misused or because the parallel structure is off or because the sentence structure is awkward? What about incorrect usage of punctuation? There are some very obscure rules to the usage of punctuation.

3) As stated in Enodia's sticky: this is a game mechanics proposal. It will be deleted if entered.

4) Different spellings from different countries. Is it honor or honour? Color or colour? Jail or gaol? You telling me that Americans are better than rest of world or vice versa?

I rest my case.

Rad Kom
UN Ambassador
The Fiefdom of Baron Porkonia

We move that, while proposals including small spelling or grammatical errors due to accident, a lack of familiarity with the language, or including alternative spellings (i.e. US v. UK English), those with careless errors should be repremanded, and those that overuse colloquialisms and colloquial spellings (e.g., "I 'dunno,'" or any forms of 'netspeak') should be removed, as well as those with numerous careless errors in spelling and grammar.

(And, We must add, We realize that our sentances are, quite often, rather long and often punctuated with clauses of various types. We write in such a way because, in addition to taking too many Latin classes, which have had both positive and negative effects on Our English compositions, Imperial rhetoric has, traditionally, been written as such. Just read any Imperial Roman or German document, and you shall undoubtedly concede.)

Yes they should. If you're going to submit a proposal at elast take the time to use proper grammar and spelling. It's not like most of the proposals that come up for vote have much thought behind them...you can at least take the time to spell them correctly.


You just mis-spelled... You spelled least: elast

Sad, Very sad. :D :o :lol: :twisted:

There was a proposal like this which was passed in the early days of the site. If the thread relates to this one, then it was before Moderators were created for the game (or even for the forums) and as a result a lot of weirdness went on.
If the thread relates to a possible future proposal, such a proposal will be shot on sight...er...deleted.

So long as it's a proper spelling of the word in English I don't care if it's American English or Queen's English....

I vote against virtually every proposal anyway because they're all terrible so it doesn't really matter all that much.

It should be the Queens English - American English is a bastardisation of the original

Let me clarify something:

Should all UN proposals with spelling or grammar errors be dropped?

If this law is true, then why is there a proposal being voted on at this time that has spelling/grammar errors?

If this UN is going to work we must abide by the laws, which we make.

All proposals, which have grammar or spelling errors, must be dropped.

Crack Pimp is asking "Why is there a resolution on the UN floor with spelling and grammar errors if we have a previous resolution that mandates the correct use of spelling and grammar?"

The NationStates game system cannot automatically correct spelling and grammar in proposals that have been submitted. Badly written proposals have to be manually deleted by a Game Moderator. So, it doesn't matter if a resolution was passed that requires correct spelling and grammar because resolutions cannot stop proposals from being submitted.

[Smoky The Bear impersonation]
Only Game Mods and you can stop bad proposals.
[/impersonation]

--The Democratic States of Cogitation
"Think about it for a moment."
Founder of The Realm of Ambrosia

It should be the Queens English - American English is a bastardisation of the original

WHAT A BUNCH OF CROCK!!! Queens and kings are leaches of any civilest world. Born to rule, Hell no!!
Long live all nation that have kicked them out!!

A little too pedantic dont you think surely if there is an understanding exact spelling is not important!