Zompist Bboard Again

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:42 pm

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:07 pmWith Chernobyl, people keep saying that it's a great series but ruined by "unrealistic" lack of Russian accents. Because of course Ukrainian workers would spend their days speaking American English with a strong, Cold-War-spy-film-style Russian accent...

Yeah, the use of foreign-accented English for characters who are presumably speaking their native languages is one of the weirdest preoccupations of my people. Right now I'm playing in a role-playing game set in Mexico City and we had to make it an explicit rule that no one would attempt a Mexican accent--because you know if we didn't, somebody would! (I'm playing a hick character so he has a hick accent--a Missouri hick accent since the other players mostly speak like Chicagoans.)

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:31 am I sometimes get the feeling that a lot of Germans consider the 70s the peak of American music making. My brother went on a camping trip with a group of Pfadfinder in high school and came back complaining that in sing-alongs all they wanted to hear was John Denver.

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:06 am I prefer subtitles, whether fiction or not, to hear the linguistic diversity. That is a problem (among others) in Braveheart and the little I have seen of Outlaw King. They do not seem to have Scottish accents let alone Scots, Gaelic or French.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:19 am In that same vein, I enjoyed the Latin in Barbarians, but I feel it's too bad the Germans speek modern German and not reconstructed proto-Germanic.

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:32 amShortly - the Germanic tribes speak German because the series was made for the German market and are supposed to be the viewpoint characters with whom the viewers are supposed to sympathise.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:01 pm

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:32 amShortly - the Germanic tribes speak German because the series was made for the German market and are supposed to be the viewpoint characters with whom the viewers are supposed to sympathise.

Too bad it's live-action... otherwise they could have use the method Astérix et les Goths used: draw the word balloons in Fraktur.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 4:43 am

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:01 pm

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:32 amShortly - the Germanic tribes speak German because the series was made for the German market and are supposed to be the viewpoint characters with whom the viewers are supposed to sympathise.

Too bad it's live-action... otherwise they could have use the method Astérix et les Goths used: draw the word balloons in Fraktur.

That only works if they're Goths!

(For those unfamiliar with the album and/or French, the use of Fraktur is a stealth pun; Fraktur is called gothique in French.)

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:05 am
It also works in English-- most people would understand "Gothic" as referring to Fraktur. Ironically typographers use Gothic for sans-serif fonts.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:31 pm Without looking it up, place these inventions in chronological order:

1) The ball-point pen
2) The fucking X-ray gun!!!

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:49 am

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:31 pm Without looking it up, place these inventions in chronological order:

1) The ball-point pen
2) The fucking X-ray gun!!!

Based on you asking in this thread, I guess it's 2) - 1).

alice wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:35 pm But was it clarified that it was the subvariety of X-ray gun capable of coition? Surely that would make a difference.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:23 pm

alice wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:35 pm But was it clarified that it was the subvariety of X-ray gun capable of coition? Surely that would make a difference.

The invention of X, and the application of X to human coitus, are usually separated by a gap measured in seconds, going back to Ogg, who invented both the bone, and the bone with grooves gnawed into it for her pleasure.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:34 pmIn 1973 Paul Lauterbur published the first MRI images, but it took until 1999 for the first MRI image of a couple having sex in an MRI machine to be released to the public.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:13 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:34 pmIn 1973 Paul Lauterbur published the first MRI images, but it took until 1999 for the first MRI image of a couple having sex in an MRI machine to be released to the public.

Why didn't you finish your sentence?

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:23 pm

alice wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:35 pm But was it clarified that it was the subvariety of X-ray gun capable of coition? Surely that would make a difference.

The invention of X, and the application of X to human coitus, are usually separated by a gap measured in seconds, going back to Ogg, who invented both the bone, and the bone with grooves gnawed into it for her pleasure.