Upmost Importance, Inc
Upmost Importance, Inc.
25 6th Street, Greensleeves
Upmost Importance, Inc. is a linguistic preservation and policing organization based in Greensleeves which performs work to preserve the minority Protolucidian Major language. This non-profit organization engages in publishing, public outreach, education, and observation to assess the usage of Protolucidian Major, provide monitoring and patrolling of grammatical usage, and preserve the utility of the sub-language as a cultural tool. Upmost Importance is the primary linguistic organization working with the Protolucidian Major sub-language.
Upmost Importance, Inc. plays a central role in the Protolucidian Major sub-language as an indigenous institution. It also works as one of four central linguistic organizations in Illumination working together to preserve the four Protolucidian languages, of which Protolucidian Major is one.
In naming itself, Upmost Importance, Inc. played homage to Illuminatia's network of regional grammar policing organizations, which work to preserve Glossa Communi, Illuminatia's mainstream common language. These regional organizations engage in a greater level of linguistic prescription than Upmost Importance, as a part of their efforts to prevent oronyms and idiomatic substitutions. Meanwhile, Upmost Importance, Inc. and its three sister organizations instead take a more descriptive approach, subscribing to the philosophy that such technique will result in sufficient linguistic unity within a minority language that itself has been defined by its ability to drift and contribute to cultural diversity by way of its flexibility in using language to communicate.
The organization delicately balances its role in preservation and prevention of unnecessary degeneration of the Protolucidian Major sub-language's ability to effectively communicate among a minority populace, while also celebrating the cultural implications of an evolving language within the context of sister minority languages which also evolve in their own way. Upmost Importance holds a position of elevated status among the language institutions tending to the Protolucidian languages as a result of the common use of Protolucidian Major as a utility language that is generally understood by speakers of the three lesser-spoken Protolucidian sub-languages.
Upmost Importance, Inc. receives consideration from the Illuminatia Department of Language and Lexicology (DLL) in support of the organization's work relating to the cultural significance of the Protolucidian languages. The DLL also welcomes the ancillary benefit that the designated elasticity of the Protolucidian Major language provides in relation to the stability of the common language, Glossa Communi. The DLL understands that Protolucidian Major plays a cathartic role in the greater linguistic ecosystem in Illuminatia, affording a platform for intense linguistic antics to take place in regions where Protolucidian Major is spoken, without contaminating Illuminatia's common language.