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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-24, 09:17

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I only subscribe to LGR, Nostalgia Nerd, RMC The Cave and ADG. The others I'll catch when they show up in my recommendations. I also totally missed out on all the 8 Bit Guy controversy but I also don't watch every video although I mostly like his voice and editing. The music is okay too, I guess. I …

Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-11-24, 09:07

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What you're looking at here is an honest-to-goodness Costco fruitcake. I usually start out the holiday season with the store bought stuff. But once we're into December, it's on to the downright delicious homemade fruitcakes that I like to baste in rum for several days. In fact, one slice of a …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 18:58

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Any accent is aquired one way or another and it'll always function as social demarcation and die out sooner or later, so I'm not sure you can dismiss Valleyspeak on those grounds. But I get where you guys are coming from. California English is very close to the dominant American accent. But the …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 17:53

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Intel486dx33 does have a point in that Californians don't seem to have a distinct regional accent. It's just generic 'American'. The east coast has several distinctive accents, as does the south and west. I can also usually tell Canadians from Americans by their accents. But there doesn't seem to …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 16:05

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How do you say "old computer user" in other languages? In English this is an ambiguous phrase. It can mean both "old user of computers" and "user of old computers". You have to decide which meaning is correct from the context (on this forum both are probably appropriate...) A very good example. The …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 15:55

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The people in America who speak the clearest form of english are Bi-lingual ( Spanish / English ) The people of California speak the most precise english with out an accent. Everyone else speaks english with some sort of accent or variant form of english. What Brostenen is trying to tell you is …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 11:44

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Oh yes, this is something that people who learn English from movies don't understand. Swearing is bad. Don't drop F-bombs into casual conversation. Swearing is also bad in most other cultures but speaking a foreign language, to most people, is often a little like having a second personality. What I …

Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-11-23, 11:12

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This is the Best Coffee I have tasted so far. If you like breakfast blend flavor coffees you will love thi one. Its a light but flavorful blend. No harsh or bitter aftertaste and goes down smooth. But it is rich in caffeine. A couple of cups and you will be wired for a few hours. I like this better …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-05, 13:07

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I'm a professional translator and have worked with cutting edge machine learning/deep learning/"AI" translation engines, and their output requires so much editing that it is often quicker to just translate it all from scratch. Machine translation has a loooooooooooooong way to go before it can be …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-04, 15:24

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Jo22 wrote on 2020-11-03, 14:13: Edit: For the sake of fairness.. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language 😉 Hey, at least with German the spelling has some bearing on how words are generally pronounced. "Trough"...troff... come on, gimme a break! 😉

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-23, 09:14

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I just discovered that you can keep picking a lockpicked chest over and over to raise your lockpicking skills in Betrayal at Krondor . LOL. So this game is one of those RPGs that is very low-key. Lots of exploration, no re-spawning enemies, a fun sense of adventure that you can relax and play with …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-05-06, 15:03

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A couple of things I've been playing... Duke Nukem 1 -- Episode 1 What a fun little romp. I never got into this one much when I was a kid but the other day I was looking through some scrolling EGA games to test a new screen and got stuck on it. The graphics are colorful and I really like the …

Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-04, 11:58

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-05-01, 18:23: Am I the only one here with 80s tunes? Not at all: Echo and the Bunnymen - Heads Will Roll (Spain, 1984) I must have listened to this recording hundreds and hundreds of times. It never gets old.

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