Escape Goat, Inc

Escape Goat, Inc.

42 Warren Avenue, Allegro

Industry: Communication, linguistics

Entity type: Non-profit

Product: Topical authority, information for public dissemination, linguistic preservation

Revenue: 180,000μ/AU

Personnel: 30 employees

Motto: "Here to be your scapegoat."

Escape Goat, Inc. is a linguistic preservation and policing organization based in Allegro which performs work to preserve the minority Quasilucidian language. This non-profit organization engages in publishing, public outreach, education, and observation to assess the usage of Quasilucidian, provide monitoring and patrolling of grammatical usage, and preserve the utility of the sub-language as a cultural tool. Escape Goat is the primary linguistic organization working with the Quasilucidian sub-language.

Escape Goat, Inc. plays a central role in the Quasilucidian 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 Quasilucidian is one.

In naming itself, Escape Goat, 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 Escape Goat, as a part of their efforts to prevent oronyms and idiomatic substitutions. Meanwhile, Escape Goat, 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 gingerly balances its role in preservation and prevention of unnecessary degeneration of the Quasilucidian 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.

Escape Goat, 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 Quasilucidian language provides in relation to the stability of the common language, Glossa Communi. The DLL understands that Quasilucidian plays a cathartic role in the greater linguistic ecosystem in Illuminatia, affording a platform for relentless linguistic antics to take place in regions where Quasilucidian is spoken, without contaminating Illuminatia's common language.