Talk:20 ice mark note

Two notes:

1. Twenty in German is "zwanzig," not "zwantig."

That was a bit of carelessness on my part. Fortunately, the actual note says "Zwanzig". If you notice any other obvious mistakes like this, please feel free to correct them. I make no claim of ownership of this article, whatever my degree of contribution, and always welcome being corrected for an outright mistake such as this. Baron of Bastanchury (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

2. I think using German on our official currency makes sense, but doing so without any sort of formal declaration or precedent for German in Westarctica's governance doesn't. I know that the EW article for Westarctica states that German and English are our official languages, but where is that declared formally? It has never been used on official documents, as far as I know. I think we should only have it on currency if we're intending to start releasing official announcements and documents in German and English.

When I designed the note, I was taking into consideration our European branch of citizenry and imitating the use of multiple languages on, for example, the euro which has EURO/ ΕΥΡΩ/ ЕВРО printed on it for English/ Latin users, Greek users, and Bulgarian/ Cyrilic ones respectively, though technically these are representative of different alphabets, not languages per se. The euro also lacks any distinguishing language on it, making it more universal in its appeal, but since I have included "Twenty Ice Marks" across the front, it seemed fair to write the same in German across the back. Baron of Bastanchury (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Again, it's a change I support, but unless we're doing this as part of an overall policy change, I don't think it is prudent. Just my 2 cents. -Jordan

How do you think this might be made more official? Ideally, there should be a published document itemizing the standards and content for any note issued by the Central Bank, and these would usually precede the actual design or printing of any notes, but I haven't yet seen any code that covers this— I don't think that there shouldn't be one, because there probably should! Such a document should probably be composed and then sent to the Grand Duke for approval rather than asking him to compose it himself (don't increase the monarch's workload without good cause, I always say). Please feel free to share your thoughts on that. Baron of Bastanchury (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)