[conlang_learners] Ballot example

[Padraic Brown]

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> (Submitting a ballot without any languages is not
> >> very useful, though :D)
> >
> > Sure it is -- vote of no confidence! :P
> 
> I suppose so. It won't make any difference to the outcome
> of the vote, though.

Spoken like a true politician! ;) Null ballots in general are used more for disaffected protest than for expecting to "win". And what is there to protest!? This is the first time anything like this has been attempted and anyone who doesn't like at least óne language on the list can always (or could always, up til yestereve) nominate one more to their liking. The only way it would make ány kind of difference is if a large number of people voted the same way -- a majority or sufficiently large minority of null ballots would (leastways shòuld) be enough to give us pause and reconsider the languages on the list. Probably a million-to-one chance, though.

Padraic

> Cheers,
> Philip