Re: Founding a Nation
I hope that you two will excuse both of my mistakes in the previous post, yet you should understand that English isn't at all my first language, and sometimes I struggle to correctly spell some fairly uncommon words. And may you please explain to me what you meant by the title "Minister of Misspeling" (and so their function), Minister of Non-Euclidean Geometry and Transportation?
Also I owe an apology for disregarding the commas. I, quite frankly, saw no need to use them before.
Please don't take any criticism of mine too seriously, especially in a silly thread like this one. I was unaware that English is a secondary language for you, primarily because there are so many native speakers that fail to grasp even the most basic grammatical conventions. I freely admit that your English is far superior to my abilities in any other language (varying levels of inadequate proficiency in French, Russian, and Japanese).
I'm not a mathematician (
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Here's the article. It will probably make more sense than I did (and it will likely be FAR more accurate):
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The other half of the title, Transportation, is pretty obvious. As for the "Minister of Misspeling," a great deal of the titles are jokes (such as the Ministry of Procrastination, which we'll get to one of these days).
