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VOTE TAULOVER FOR UNDERHUSEN   as usual, don't if you don't want to

MY QUALIFICATIONS

• Skrifa of the 13th, 18th, 19th Underhusen
• Either wrote or helped write every single law in New Hyperion
• Helped negotiate/co-authored the Covenant of Fellowship Between New Hyperion and Wintreath
• Helped Mathy with his grammar check of Wintrean laws
• That's about it I think

MY PLATFORM

• I actually have legislative goals for once!
• Make the following people Paragons, or at least consider them for that honor: Colberius X, Point Breeze, Reon
• Formally encourage the Monarchy and Overhusen to complete the implementation of the Grammar Check of Wintreath, via non-binding resolution
• Get that Underhusen election process discussion resolved, if the current session of the Underhusen doesn't
• Try to implement policy in the best interests of Wintreans, etc. etc.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

• Lord of Propaganda in New Hyperion
• Probably not a conflict of interest anymore since NH is our vassal now and the government there is dead anyway ):

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THANK YOU FOR READING
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Yeah I know, it's my third time using this format in a row, but again, I had to completely retype this from scratch since those posts got locked ok? (I should probably copy the bbcode from here and archive it somewhere else...)

• That's about it I think

Yeah, definitely voting for you.

Hard to argue with all of those colors, I'm voting for you.

Do you know Chinese or did you use a translation service to get the words above the gifs?

Do you know Chinese or did you use a translation service to get the words above the gifs?

A bit of both. I can speak Chinese, and can write some basic words, but I forgot how to say "penguin." So not direct machine translation, but they did help.

A bit of both. I can speak Chinese, and can write some basic words, but I forgot how to say "penguin." So not direct machine translation, but they did help.

I've heard that Chinese is one of the hardest languages to learn for native English speakers...is it something you grew up with, or something you learned later on?

A bit of both. I can speak Chinese, and can write some basic words, but I forgot how to say "penguin." So not direct machine translation, but they did help.

I've heard that Chinese is one of the hardest languages to learn for native English speakers...is it something you grew up with, or something you learned later on?

I grew up speaking both Mandarin Chinese and English. Naturally my Chinese skills have deteriorated while my English skills have improved.

But Chinese grammar is actually one of the simplest among common languages; the difficult part is getting  tones (easy for native speakers), understanding the massive number of homophones based on context, and learning all the characters (I'm mostly illiterate, but I've heard that it's actually easier than it sounds once you learn the basic ones, as the characters are roughly syllabic, with radicals helping to determine meaning).

I grew up speaking both Mandarin Chinese and English. Naturally my Chinese skills have deteriorated while my English skills have improved.

But Chinese grammar is actually one of the simplest among common languages; the difficult part is getting  tones (easy for native speakers), understanding the massive number of homophones based on context, and learning all the characters (I'm mostly illiterate, but I've heard that it's actually easier than it sounds once you learn the basic ones, as the characters are roughly syllabic, with radicals helping to determine meaning).

That's fascinating, and impressive that you can at least speak it...thanks for sharing with us.

I know only a few Chinese words, laoshi being one of them. I probably mess up the spelling there. Speaking of which, do you know Pinyin?

I know only a few Chinese words, laoshi being one of them. I probably mess up the spelling there. Speaking of which, do you know Pinyin?

The spelling is right (in Pinyin). And yeah, I know Pinyin, I went to Chinese school on Saturdays during elementary school and they teach it largely as a pronunciation guide. (But I speak with a Southern Chinese accent [albeit heavily foreign-sounding due to lack of practice] and as a result have trouble differentiating letters such as z/zh, s/sh, and c/ch [we generally ignore the "h" when pronouncing things].)

I'm jealous of your language learning ability but will still vote for you.
Chinese... that's like next to Arabic in languages that almost seem like they were made to be as not like English as possible. Which might not be bad because English has a lot of problems, but still, not a relatively easy to learn language alongside English, like Spanish.
Question: If you win, will everything be made bi-lingual?
Also, Question: If you win, will you occasionally throw in Japanese or Korean just to see who is paying attention?

I'm jealous of your language learning ability but will still vote for you.

I didn't really learn it, just picked it up as a native speaker.

Question: If you win, will everything be made bi-lingual?

No, because I'm not fluently bilingual.

Also, Question: If you win, will you occasionally throw in Japanese or Korean just to see who is paying attention?

No, because I don't speak Japanese or Korean.

I mean, I don't speak Korean or Japanese either, but I could throw in an anyong-haseyo or an omae wa mou shindeiru every so often.

And - in what context did you learn Mandarin? Just around the house? Because in my case I'm definitely a lot better at reading it than in speaking or listening to it (a fact I'm painfully aware of due to my roommates all being from China and largely communicating in Mandarin), because in school the focus in exams was almost entirely on writing, and so I could get away with an abominably poor level of conversational Mandarin with an adequate if highly stilted ability to write it.

I mean, I don't speak Korean or Japanese either, but I could throw in an anyong-haseyo or an omae wa mou shindeiru every so often.

yeah but that's memes

And - in what context did you learn Mandarin? Just around the house?

Yep.