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Intentionally Wrong .
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:14 am Post subject: an Apple a day |
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My girlfriend's computer is a Mac.
As of today, it's a Mac with internet access.
My first action was to download Inform 7. My second was to wonder just what Mac-exclusive games I've been missing. That's probably not a huge list, so I'm also wondering about freeware or abandoned games that are Mac compatible.
Have we had a Mac thread? Here's a Mac thread. _________________ Okay! |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: |
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http://www.gamersquarter.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1988
Actually, pretty much every game in that thread won't work on modern systems, and the modern Mac gaming scene is pretty terrible. It used to be such a paradise
Some of the better Ambrosia games work on the latest Mac OS (though not my favourites ), but other than that, there isn't really anything that great on that mac that is exclusive. _________________
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randomuser83 .
Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 20
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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You should download that leopard system and mimic windows so you can play windows games. LOL. |
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Ryan - SuperWes' Bane .
Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 295 Location: I have no idea what I'm talking about
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:56 am Post subject: |
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I own two Macs. A small Mac and a Big Mac. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: |
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You're a regular 'Mac Daddy!!!!!' |
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Have you named it yet? I suggest "Bernie". _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:45 am Post subject: |
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You could put a Barry Manilow CD next to it and it would be 'Mac and Cheese'!!!!!!! |
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Careful to keep it away from the mouse pad! _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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You could put a PRINCE CD next to it, then you could call it "Mac n' Tosh"! _________________
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Ryan - SuperWes' Bane .
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | You could put a PRINCE CD next to it, then you could call it "Mac n' Tosh"! |
I don't get it. Then again, I don't listen to Prince. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | You could put a PRINCE CD next to it, then you could call it "Mac n' Tosh"! |
I DIDN'T CARE FOR THAT |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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ADMIT IT, IT WAS CLEVER _________________
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Ryan - SuperWes' Bane wrote: | Cycle wrote: | You could put a PRINCE CD next to it, then you could call it "Mac n' Tosh"! |
I don't get it. Then again, I don't listen to Prince. |
I guess you don't speak British either!
(He's saying that Prince is no good.) _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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It should be noted that Eric-Jon just pm'd me with the following message:
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vs. |
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Ryan - SuperWes' Bane .
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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aderack wrote: |
I guess you don't speak British either! |
Indeed, most Americans don't. Know a few words though . . . but my Japanese is better than my British. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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It's not called 'British', it's called 'English'. Your language is called 'American English'. |
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Technically, it's SAE, or Standard American English.
Whereas what you speak is probably Standard British English or, to be more specific, one of or a mix of: Southern English English (London English, Cockney, Jamaican-London, Essex English, Estuary English, Hertfordshire, Jafaican, Southern Rural and West County English or East Anglian English), Midlands English English (West Midlands English or East Midlands English) or Northern English English (Cumbrian, Geordie, Lacanshire, Mackem, Pitmatic, Scouse, or Tyke). |
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aderack .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:57 am Post subject: |
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My language is called Alfons. _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:03 am Post subject: |
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Chomsky would say it was your I-language and that 'English' is an E-language described as a series of overlapping I-languages. |
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:55 am Post subject: |
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Scratchmonkey wrote: | Chomsky would say it was your I-language and that 'English' is an E-language described as a series of overlapping I-languages. |
What about the double root?
edit: no matter _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:37 am Post subject: |
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ENGLISH
FROM ENGLAND
ONE DAY WE'RE GONNA ASK FOR OUR LANGUAGE BACK AND THEN YOU'LL ALL BE IN TROUBLE |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: |
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like 98% of english is french anyway _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: |
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I think what you mean is that English, like French, is rooted in Latin, yes
BUT LATIN IS A DEAD LANGUAGE, THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS LONG SINCE CRUMBLED
THEY DON'T HAVE ANY CLAIM TO IT ANYMORE
ENGLAND, HOWEVER, STILL THRIVES, SO GET YOUR OWN FRIGGING LANGUAGE YOU YAHOOS |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: |
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What I mean is, that very little "Old English" remains in the current incarnation of the language. Many, many french words took their place during their occupation of the country for three or so centuries. _________________
Last edited by Cycle on Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:59 am; edited 1 time in total |
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aderack .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: |
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And what isn't French is mostly Norwegian. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: |
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Pretty much! _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:07 am Post subject: |
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Listen, cowboys, English and french and norwegian are three very different languages
American English and Australian English are just english, except you do some of the words wrong
stop doing it
If i was prime minister you guys would have like a day to make your own language up or I'd exercise our nuclear capabilites |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Hey Harvey, France called, they want their words back! _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:11 am Post subject: |
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Here's a french word for you: AMBULANCE
I'll be ringing you one in a minute if you keep up this rhubarb |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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Here's an Old English word for you; in.
Usage; I'm about to insert my boot in yer ass! _________________
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fish .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: |
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i speak white.
both of em. _________________ you cant spell selfish without fish |
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daphaknee just enemies now
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | Here's a french word for you: AMBULANCE
I'll be ringing you one in a minute if you keep up this rhubarb |
see thats just bad slang if you keep up this root used in sour pies
i mean thats just stupid harvey james |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:56 am Post subject: |
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It's called an 'idiom', GO LOOK THAT UP IN YOUR FUNK AND WAGNALL'S
I had an American Webster's dictionary as a kid and it had like 50 entries under 'rockstar'
Including rockstar-killer, 'a type of large catapult.' |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: |
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Haha
THWARTED
It's like you put that word filter in JUST for that post |
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Redeye .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | I think what you mean is that English, like French, is rooted in Latin, yes.
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Germanic roots, too.
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... GET YOUR OWN FRIGGING LANGUAGE YOU YAHOOS |
I'd like to mix Navaho code-talk with that whistling language. Or yodeling. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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FWIW (not much), they say American English stayed relatively constant compared to British English, when all them guys started imitating the upperclass twats and then it all went to hell.
Three cheers for a rejection of a strict class system! _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
==/\/ >_ kirkjerk.com |
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aderack .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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I understand that Appalachian English is actually the closest living relative of Elizabethan English. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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kirkjerk wrote: | FWIW (not much), they say American English stayed relatively constant compared to British English, when all them guys started imitating the upperclass twats and then it all went to hell.
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Codswallop! |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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I took Latin in middle school and high school because when starting up a language program I looked at the listed options and decided that A) I didn't want to learn spanish, and B) I had no idea what latin was. When I asked what it was I was told "it'll be easy because it's the base language for english." Well, that's a bullshit lie is about all I got to say after taking 6 years of latin only to finally graduate latin 2. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Redeye .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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_________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Swimmy .
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: |
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And as someone from East Tennessee, I feel it is my duty to point out, every time the word is mentioned, that it is pronounced Appa-lat-cha, not Appa-late-cha.
I never really thought about it before, but My Fair Lady could pretty easily be about someone from Maine trying to educate a good ol' southern gal, couldn't it? _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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Swimmy .
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: |
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And now an explanation of "y'all." At least in East Tennessee, "y'all" is always plural. Outsiders who visit the region think it's humorous to hear it used to address a single person, but in fact it is often used to address a hypothetical group. "Y'all have a good evenin'" at the grocery store means, "You and whoever you are spending your evening with, have a good evening." If you don't believe it, go up to someone after church and ask if "y'all wanna come to dinner?" Don't be surprised when the whole family shows up. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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aderack .
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:22 am Post subject: |
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http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh30-2.html
Quote: | Southern mountain dialect (as the folk speech of Appalachia is called by linguists) is certainly archaic, but the general historical period it represents can be narrowed down to the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, and can be further particularized by saying that what is heard today is actually a sort of Scottish-flavored Elizabethan English. This is not to say that Chaucerian forms will not be heard in everyday use, and even an occasional Anglo-Saxon one as well. |
That's from two seconds of Google. I've read plenty of articles stating that, properly, Shakespeare would actually be read in something of an Appalachian accent. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | I took Latin in middle school and high school because when starting up a language program I looked at the listed options and decided that A) I didn't want to learn spanish, and B) I had no idea what latin was. When I asked what it was I was told "it'll be easy because it's the base language for english." Well, that's a bullshit lie is about all I got to say after taking 6 years of latin only to finally graduate latin 2. |
That sucks! Why did you do it for 6 years? |
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ryan .
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | I took Latin in middle school and high school because when starting up a language program I looked at the listed options and decided that A) I didn't want to learn spanish, and B) I had no idea what latin was. When I asked what it was I was told "it'll be easy because it's the base language for english." Well, that's a bullshit lie is about all I got to say after taking 6 years of latin only to finally graduate latin 2. |
salve amicus meus!
sadly, I forgot all 900 cases. _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | That sucks! Why did you do it for 6 years? |
Because I failed and had to replace the F with a passing grade. It took a while. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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I briefly took a Latin course once because I wanted to learn how to pronounce "lorem ipsum" correctly. (I wanted to use it as song lyrics.) I dropped it after the first class, when I heard the professor speak Latin as though it were Canadian English. |
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boojiboy7 .
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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The way I learned Latin at good old Jesuit high school wat that there is no known correct pronunciation for it. We don't know how the Romans said it, so people disagree on what is proper.
This was so awesome for not having to do oral reports. |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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I was a little surprised that no one knows exactly what the "Rebel Yell" of the US Civil War was.
You think someone would have thought to ask before all the geezer vets died. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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Swimmy .
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They did ask, if I recall correctly. One soldier responded, "I can't do it with a full belly." _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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