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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:14 am    Post subject: an Apple a day Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Sad

Some of the better Ambrosia games work on the latest Mac OS (though not my favourites Sad), but other than that, there isn't really anything that great on that mac that is exclusive.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should download that leopard system and mimic windows so you can play windows games. LOL.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I own two Macs. A small Mac and a Big Mac.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're a regular 'Mac Daddy!!!!!'
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you named it yet? I suggest "Bernie".
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could put a Barry Manilow CD next to it and it would be 'Mac and Cheese'!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Careful to keep it away from the mouse pad!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could put a PRINCE CD next to it, then you could call it "Mac n' Tosh"!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ADMIT IT, IT WAS CLEVER
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It should be noted that Eric-Jon just pm'd me with the following message:
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not called 'British', it's called 'English'. Your language is called 'American English'.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My language is called Alfons.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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.


What about the double root?

edit: no matter
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

like 98% of english is french anyway
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And what isn't French is mostly Norwegian.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pretty much!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey Harvey, France called, they want their words back!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's an Old English word for you; in.

Usage; I'm about to insert my boot in yer ass!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i speak white.
both of em.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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


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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha

THWARTED

It's like you put that word filter in JUST for that post
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Harveyjames wrote:
I think what you mean is that English, like French, is rooted in Latin, yes.


Germanic roots, too.

Quote:

... GET YOUR OWN FRIGGING LANGUAGE YOU YAHOOS



I'd like to mix Navaho code-talk with that whistling language. Or yodeling.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I understand that Appalachian English is actually the closest living relative of Elizabethan English.
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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.


Codswallop!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I understand that Appalachian English is actually the closest living relative of Elizabethan English.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Redeye wrote:
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I understand that Appalachian English is actually the closest living relative of Elizabethan English.

http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh30-2.html

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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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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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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.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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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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.
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They did ask, if I recall correctly. One soldier responded, "I can't do it with a full belly."
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