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Dear members of the UN, delegates of the UN.
Due to the huge hispanic community that exists, with numerous nations and regions, i think it’s essential to give their language, spanish, the importance it deserves.

So I propose that the Spanish language be promoted as co-official language, so UN resolutions could be translated to spanish for a better understanding among nations and regions.

Yours truthfully,
Maximo Campano, ‘Generalisimo” of the Republic of Campano.


Needing Your Endorsement to propose it

I'd consider this to be effectively a game mechanics proposal....as such the DSH will instruct their delegate to vote against it.

We appreciate the sentiments behind the proposal, but remind our fellow delegate this is an English website, and if Spanish is allowed, then by an extension other languages would have been be introduced (including, but not limited to, portugese, Dutch etc etc), which would unduly increase the time wasted on administration to rediculous proportions.

Moreover, the Democratic States of Hirota has no translators for Spanish, so would have problems submitting resolutions in Spanish.
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This sounds worryingly like game mechanics, yes. We'd support a ruling on official UN languages if it had no mechanics effect (though we'd be wary to limit it to just Spanish).
If you can find a voluntary translator to post translations to the forum, that'd be acceptable; but you can't expect anything to be done about it otherwise.

:lol: To all concerned,
Let it be known now and hereafter that any one caught speaking Spanish within the border of the Kingdom of Lomazzo will be arrested, flogged, drawn and quarted, decapitated, and then have there heads stuck on a spike and displayed along the road side.
Also, every language on earth will be a prompt on our ATM machines EXCEPT spanish. So sayith our King....Let it be known, let it be done.
Minister of affairs,
Kingdom of Lomazzo

Mmm...no. Do the gameplayers really NEED resolutions or anything else in Spanish? If they do, then what about other languages? Should we have to consider all the other modern languages as fair game for legislation? If they don't, then is it worth it? Would the cost of implementing such a proposal (which surely deals with game mechanics) be outweighed by the additional value (if any) added to the game by the Spanish language?
My answer is that the Spanish language is not crucial enough and does not need to be added to the game as a matter of mechanics.

The United Nations has no official language. However, all resolutions that have reached quorum to date have been written in English because that is the language that most delegates understand. You can write a proposal in Spanish, but it won't pass because most delegates won't understand it.

This has been an OOC post.

From a moderation perspective, proposals need to either be written in English or with an English translation provided in the text of the proposal itself.