Drachmaland

Mousebumples sends all-Pacifics-wide recruitment TG's for Europeia as soon as nations reach the age of 31 days.

Hello there, Adaia!

I thought they call themselves XKI.

I thought TIO is The Independent Order; TCB obviously is The Communist Bloc because they use it themselves.

Drachmaland views Zogradia in an undoubtedly positive way, with commercial exchanges dating from the very beginning of Zogradia's existence. We also value highly our cultural exchanges, too.

The following idea could apply to Fujai (who's studying a Norse-English cross-breed), to Tailsea (who's looking for language examples with wide phoneme spectra) and (of course) everyone else: You can consider (and draw inspiration from) Jèrriais; here's also something regarding the Development of the writing system of Jèrriais.

First, listen to all the possible phonemes used by humans now: Then look at your alphabet and decide which letter stands for each of aforementioned phonemes you want to have in your language.

Two new issues added, increasing the total number to 445. Issue #443 includes an option for the infamous "cut all subsidies" decision.

Don't get me wrong, Tailsea, your choices are OK — I actually support your alphabet, in spite of it seeming maybe a tad too extensive to some. Moreover, I believe I also gave you a tool for assigning phonemes to your letters, thus helping you go up some levels regarding how professional your work looks.

Hmm, yes, the total-number-of-letters issue. Truth is that the IPA had (so far) to use 107 letters in order to represent all the phonemes that humans can produce; you can listen to them here: http://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/. But typically languages do not use the entire phoneme spectrum available, and the more a language is spoken through the ages, the easier it becomes for it to lose some letters or even phonemes. I can also suppose that some of the Tailsean letters are just base letters with diacritics or prosodic marks, so the total number of letters in the Tailsean alphabet would be lower. So, I'll tell you what: Listen to the various phonemes humans use, select the ones that you feel they're appropriate for your nation's language, and assign letters to them. After that, you can make up your mind regarding diacritics and such: whether they're needed in your language, and which ones to use.

Hello, The Russian Communists, your hopes for TWP will come true.

Welcome — your nation looks peacefully interesting!

By comparing effects after selecting a specific option of an issue in multiple instances (i.e., where the affected NS stats differed in value among the cases examined), I reached the conclusion (through observation) that an option that can e.g. boost your nation's Economy by +12 when your Economy is at 16, can have just a +1 change when your Economy is at 84, and nothing at all when it is at 98. I'm therefore checking the hypothesis that, apart from an option having a delta† effect (which leads to a comparative value), there can also be some kind of an 'absolute value' requirement (meaning that with your decision this metric can't be lower than X or higher than Y) and/or that your decision could have a delta effect at a level of e.g. 20 but the strength of its effect diminishes as the level is closer to either extreme (until it is actually nullified). So, my question is simple: #4. Have you noticed in your own stats the phenomenon described above (i.e., having a much diminished effect of a specific decision option on a specific metric, when said metric has become much higher or lower in the meantime)? _________ † here 'delta' stands for the difference operator

Yeah, go for it!

Well, Fujai, you can also think about creating variations, as the Norwegian languages has four written forms: Riksmål, Bokmål, Nynorsk, Høgnorsk. Or adapt your nation's ethnological & linguistic history in a way that your language is affected by another language, either Indo-European or not. For the writing system most probably the most important decision from your part would have to be the use of additional letters (aesc, esh, eth, ethel, thorn, wynn, yogh etc) or diacritics (acute accent, grave accent, caron, cedilla, circumflex, dot, hook, umlaut).

Drachmaland and its colonies of Akanes & Obolos have two official languages: Drachmalandian Greek and American English. The Akanes dialect is slightly different to the mainstream language, sounding a bit redneckish, with some additional, non-standard sounds and many dropped vowels. Drachmalandian Greek is virtually identical to Modern Greek, the only differences being some additional orthographic conventions (based on current usage) and a modified 28-letter alphabet that does not correspond fully to the one used in Greece and Cyprus. There is the typical Greek accent (word stress mark) in use (with some variations in its rules), but the diaeresis diacritic is used differently than in standard Greek. There are no digraphs or diphthongs. Common letters with Modern Greek, with same pronunciation: Αα, Γγ, Δδ, Εε, Ζζ, Ηη, Θθ, Κκ, Λλ, Μμ, Νν, Ξξ, Οο, Ππ, Ρρ, Σσς, Ττ, Φφ, Χχ, Ψψ. Common letters with Modern Greek, but with different pronunciation: Ββ = 'b' as in big, Ιι = German or Spanish 'j', used only immediately after a consonant as a modifier, Υυ = 'oo' as in spoon, Ωω = 'ch' as in chair. Additional letters: Dd = 'd' as in dart, Gg = 'g' as in gulf, Jj = 'j' as in jam, Vv = 'v' as in victory.

A lot of fellow TWPers, and often newly-founded nations, ask questions regarding their choices for their nation's languages and alphabets (or writing systems in general), so I thought it'd be nice if there is a thread were such discussions can take place — and here it is! Here you can be as voluble or laconic as you please; you can exhibit IPA sounds, scripts, graphemes, letters or keyboard layouts; you can explain how your nation came to use the specific language or writing system you chose — and of course you can post content here or link to your nation's factbook or dispatches.

Yeah, but here I've acquired some more nicks — therefore please add 'em in the list, too.

Hariko, we have to be realistic on what's been actually used around the forums: Drak, Drako, Drago.

Guys, sorry for the utterly unnecessary bother I've caused. Actually I've found out in the meantime that any OP can edit/change their thread title themselves, by employing the Full Editor on their opening post of their thread.

Total number of issues as of today is 443.

Ah, your soul is so pure, Hariko...

Hey, did you thing I'd ever let such a sick pun opportunity pass?

Fifty?

He's stated himself: "After some embassy purging and reorganising the list so that more relevant embassies are on top, we have a slightly revamped embassy program." https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=12850640 https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=12850289 https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=12850363 https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=12850478& https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=12852179 & https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=12855284 The remaining three regions were completely inactive for long.