Adrian spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> I heard a story once about a military exercise that was taking place
That's cuz not one of the three groups mentioned above speaks real english
(like the English and some Canadians). (*Incoming!!!!*)
It's funny ot think English is one of the few cases of a language lots of folk
claim to speak, and yet someone from the Hebrides speaking English will have
real trouble talking to someone from Memphis or someone from Alice Springs or
Detroit's Inner City.
To bring this OT for GZG, I wonder how to simulate this in GZG games
- difficulties (increased roll req'd) for support requests and other
commo requests between nationalities? Or do we assume on board translation AI
takes care of all this in the future?
Tom.
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> It's funny ot think English is one of the few cases of a language
We assume that everybody gets trained in "Standard English" during Basic
Training, and we send the Scots, Irish, Australians, and anybody from
Liverpool off for remedial English-as-a-second-dialect training...
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> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> >It's funny ot think English is one of the few cases of a language
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On a slightly less off topic note, what about the Spanish-speaking
population of the NAC? The NAC controls S. America, remember...I'd assume
civil services would be offered in either language, but I'd think English
would be the military language. Spanish-language units are likely
(His/Her
Majesty's Loyal B.A. Dragoons...) but English would be the operating
language...
Either way, lots and lots more Spanish loan words in English, si?:) Maybe
some sort of "Spanglish" is the everyday language in many areas, w/
Standard English being taught to new recruits. (I won't go into the
English-as-a-second-dialect thing any deeper than I already am from
other
posts...)
> On 26 Feb 99, at 17:14, Thomas Barclay wrote:
> It's funny ot think English is one of the few cases of a language
I think one of my random generated sigs is: "The British and Americans are two
peoples seperated by a
common language."- Oscar Wilde.