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ooooOOOOOoooo
It's such an impressive language and I was looking at it the other day and thought "I wonder if I could try to say something?"
For those who are curious, Timothia approximately wrote: "A huh for Jute... Are you all-Jutean-knowledgeable? My dearest, do you have the ability talk? (Badly I write Jutean?)
Thanks a lot, I have worked hard on it and still do in fact! :D
And for those of you wondering what I was trying to say, I was going for "A question for Jute... Are you fluent in Jutean? Are you conversational? (How badly do I write in Jutean?)"
The hard work shows. I do want to know how I ended up addressing you as "my dearest." That sounds exactly like the kind of faux pas an IRL language-learner would make. If the mistakes are realistic, then I feel like that means the language is realistic.
Jute and FinRussland
I haven't posted an update in a few days on the February Phoenix Council. Here it is now!
It's actually been rather quiet, I'm blaming the freezing weather across North America. But we have been having constructive discussions, and this morning we utilized one of those conversations to completely overhaul the World Factbook Entry to something new! We can (once again) thank 
Timothia for his effort in writing the bb code for the fancy new faceplate for the region.
Other than that, expect to see a vote for any citizens of RIA on ratifying a change to the Renegade Islands Alliance constitution sometime very soon, as we're well on the way to finalizing the steps for conducting the vote! Stay tuned for a post from either myself or another member of the Phoenix council detailing how it is going to happen.
-Red Dusk
Yay what a success! Thanks for the compliment
The reason why it came across like you are very close to me is because a) you seemed to ask if I'm all-knowledgeable in Jutean, which sounded like a big compliment you'd only give your partner or elders and b) you used 'oho' which while meaning 'to have' is also a marker of the highest possible respect and politeness. Think the royal we, except used to address other people rather than to refer to yourself, or Spanish "usted" except twice or thrice as polite.
So strictly speaking it wasn't necessarily "my dearest", I could have also translated it as "respected elder" but that is probably not what you tried to say either :P
That's super interesting. I love how the context affects the tone and meaning
Context, word choice and grammar all affect it greatly
What’re y’all’s thoughts about sea shanties?
Absolute bangers
Pleased to meet another cultured person in the region.
I appreciate an occasional shantie
So it was like if he asked "Art thou the master of Jutean, my lord?"
See RD, there are more than one of us!
Also a possible translation, yes
Hey guys! Come on over to the XKI, Owlograd from Europe is serving us all doughnuts! Doughnut party!
It’s great to see posts on the RMB once more.
Annoying sheets of paper you have to chase through the streets of the port before you can teach them to your crew.
I'm putting the new Constitution up for a vote! Rather than being considered an entirely new Constitution, this will be an "overhaul amendment" which makes sweeping changes. Let me know if you have any questions or difficulty accessing the forums. The voting should be open to all citizens; if you are interested in voting but have not applied for citizenship yet, then get started here: https://renegadeislands.proboards.com/board/31/ria-registration-desk
Here is the link to the voting thread: https://renegadeislands.proboards.com/thread/2788/vote-february-phoenix-amendment
Here is the link to the discussion thread, should you have any concerns or arguments you would like heard: https://renegadeislands.proboards.com/thread/2787/discussion-new-constitution
Red Dusk II, The Lowlands and Saxony, FinRussland, and Friends of shizensky
Looks good too me, includes the stuff we discussed on Discord very well 👍
Cheers, HS o7
HumanSanity and Timothia
Hello all, hope you are all well.
Here is this week's poll, regarding the heinous raid on The Embassy. Vote and feel free to share to others (it's an open poll, non-restricted) , this concerns every nation and region on NationStates!!
page=poll/p=169653
There were already Turf Wars dating back to 2,000 years before the current setting, perhaps either as a competitive sport or a method to settle conflicts. The first recorded Turf War occurred during a period in Inkling history with many similarities to Ancient Egypt, roughly 2,000 years before the events of Splatoon began. However, as these Turf Wars of nineteen centuries later involved the Inklings and Octarians (instead of just teams of four Inklings), it has expanded into a bigger campaign, great enough to become a historical event.
Before the Great Turf Wars, the Inklings and Octarians had "amicable relations", until the rising sea levels caused them to lash out against each other in a power struggle over the remaining land.
As time progressed, the Octarians separated themselves from the other species of the Mollusc Era. They became dissatisfied with the amount of available dry land and waged war on the Inklings, the other dominant species at the time, to gain total control of the turf.
The Octarians constructed a variety of large machines known as the Great Octoweapons and began attacking Inkling cities.
The first battles of the Great War ended in victory for the Octarian forces. The diligent Octarians easily dominated the Inklings, who were unable to wake up early enough in the morning to defend themselves.(The Inklings have long led a hedonistic style of life).
Heralded by loud explosions, the Great Octoweapons quickly stormed the Inklings' central stronghold. Victory for the Octarians seemed all but certain, but due to a plug being carelessly pulled from its socket, their hopes were dashed. Lady Luck shone down on the Inklings, and the Inklings' victory over the Octarians was most likely due to their superior number of limbs. The Inklings secured a victory in the war and forced the Octarians to retreat to underground lairs such as Octo Valley, which were constructed from the ruins of the subterranean cities built by the remnants of humanity.
The Inkling faction had a fighting force known as the Squidbeak Splatoon led by Cap'n Cuttlefish, which fought against the Octarians during the war..
Oof, so many closing embassies
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