Tarlachia
29-02-2004, 11:07
To whom it may concern:
I have willingly offered myself as a representative to a fellow nation and rper, Roania. I am doing this for the reason that Roania is afraid that he might be deleted for flaming. Here are his exact words given to me on Instant Messenger. It is in reference to this thread:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=127565
Roania's IM words used:
I decided to declare my neutrality in the event of any war between METUS, and Menelmacar.Regardless of my skill with the language, I'm not a native speaker of English.My spelling is generally good, but occasionally I make errors with grammar and the like.I wrote something like, "In the event of any war between you or your allies, I will not support either side, and will recognise you as ruler of any taken land, by right of conquest or otherwise."I really didn't think that anyone could think that included me.[to be invaded].And now, I'm being threatened with invasion because I didn't see something like that could be in any way seen the way Fyreheart and Co. see it.
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Now I want to state that I, Tarlachia, am a completely neutral person in this situation, I do not have any "economical or political ties" with any of these countries. I only know Roania by his involvment in fantasy RP's that do not involve the nations any further beyond the background setting. There are no real war implications or threats. It is all merely rp's that are there for FUN. Granted, Roania and I are in one thread right now that has some deeper connections within our two nations, but it is strictly an rp for fun, there are no alliances truly being made. As I said before we do these threads (with other rpers) all for the enjoyment of storytelling.
Now that my credibility to this position is established, I wish to now present my case:
Roania, a wonderful RPer and person in general who is one of those people who do not claim the English language as their primary language. He has stated this to these other nations in question(in the thread link given above). Now, as you will notice in that thread, Roania was ripped apart for his wording in his initial post. He did not understand the level that some may read into the post, but I must disgress, come on! Just because these people may have found a loophole in the wording of the text DOES NOT give them any right to immediately declare that they are sovereign to another country (ie: Fyreheart did this to Roania--see above link). Roania became quite upset, and even more so when Fyreheart pulled a bunch of other nations supposedly supporting him/her on their stance. Yet, none of them seemed to have realized that Roania still technically holds full sovereign rights over the nation of Roania.
Point to be made: Read the text for what it was overall meant to be said as, not word for word; for they can give two entirely different stories. It is quite obvious which one should be paid attention to, and that is the fact that Roania was declaring overall majority neutrality.
Thank you for your time. I sincerely hope that you will do something to assist Roania, as the invasion and occupation of his own nation was not the intent.
Tarlachia
EDIT: the entire "invasion" was done on IRC, according to Roania.
I have willingly offered myself as a representative to a fellow nation and rper, Roania. I am doing this for the reason that Roania is afraid that he might be deleted for flaming. Here are his exact words given to me on Instant Messenger. It is in reference to this thread:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=127565
Roania's IM words used:
I decided to declare my neutrality in the event of any war between METUS, and Menelmacar.Regardless of my skill with the language, I'm not a native speaker of English.My spelling is generally good, but occasionally I make errors with grammar and the like.I wrote something like, "In the event of any war between you or your allies, I will not support either side, and will recognise you as ruler of any taken land, by right of conquest or otherwise."I really didn't think that anyone could think that included me.[to be invaded].And now, I'm being threatened with invasion because I didn't see something like that could be in any way seen the way Fyreheart and Co. see it.
*************************************************************
Now I want to state that I, Tarlachia, am a completely neutral person in this situation, I do not have any "economical or political ties" with any of these countries. I only know Roania by his involvment in fantasy RP's that do not involve the nations any further beyond the background setting. There are no real war implications or threats. It is all merely rp's that are there for FUN. Granted, Roania and I are in one thread right now that has some deeper connections within our two nations, but it is strictly an rp for fun, there are no alliances truly being made. As I said before we do these threads (with other rpers) all for the enjoyment of storytelling.
Now that my credibility to this position is established, I wish to now present my case:
Roania, a wonderful RPer and person in general who is one of those people who do not claim the English language as their primary language. He has stated this to these other nations in question(in the thread link given above). Now, as you will notice in that thread, Roania was ripped apart for his wording in his initial post. He did not understand the level that some may read into the post, but I must disgress, come on! Just because these people may have found a loophole in the wording of the text DOES NOT give them any right to immediately declare that they are sovereign to another country (ie: Fyreheart did this to Roania--see above link). Roania became quite upset, and even more so when Fyreheart pulled a bunch of other nations supposedly supporting him/her on their stance. Yet, none of them seemed to have realized that Roania still technically holds full sovereign rights over the nation of Roania.
Point to be made: Read the text for what it was overall meant to be said as, not word for word; for they can give two entirely different stories. It is quite obvious which one should be paid attention to, and that is the fact that Roania was declaring overall majority neutrality.
Thank you for your time. I sincerely hope that you will do something to assist Roania, as the invasion and occupation of his own nation was not the intent.
Tarlachia
EDIT: the entire "invasion" was done on IRC, according to Roania.