Lord_Nightblade

Originally Posted by Mariel_Martog

Basically I have both games, one I do yearly one I never have to pay a cent for again.

I can do most looks in both games.

RP happens in CO, just trickier to get around non-rp'ers.

Honestly I was playing WOW and COH at the same time and I heard no complaints from folks about WOW.

I am not going to play WOW anymore, I will However play COH and CO, but please folks who don't play both stop the bashing its getting annoying.

Originally Posted by Venture_NA

Arc #15988, "Council Empire: Rise of the Maquis"
tl;dr: 3 stars. Offenses: "just a bunch of stuff that happened", plot issues

Reviewed on: 8/4/2009
Level Range: 40-54/45-54/40-54/40-54
Architect's Keywords: Solo Friendly, Canon Related
My Keywords: Easy, Solo Friendly, Canon Related
Character used: Cat Stevie/Virtue

So why isn't the whole arc floored at 45? We find out in act II, which reveals the question should be why it isn't floored at 40.

"Colonel Gunnerside", an Army liason to Portal Corp (who is wearing a blue uniform, which I thought was Air Force)

Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave

And a large portion doesn't.

If I've got it sort of right then:

Back in Britain we had a language going before we were brought a load of words by linguistically helpful Romans, vikings and germanic tribes. This influx of new words/syntax gave us the confidence to race off plundering the globe grabbing new words from whoever we could subjugate. Helped us develop quite a rich old tongue. We weren't really nasty imperialists - we just love getting new words.

Yes - the British Empire was merely a result of us wanting quirky words to fuel modern generations appetite for Call My Bluff and Countdown.

We also had the habit of being quite welcoming to groups persecuted in the rest of Europe (we've always been part of Europe that likes to pretend it isn't - so annoying the mainland by taking in refugees always appealed). This managed to sporadically add a good mix of new linguistic input.

Never too sure where the various bits of Greek came from though... although we often manage to mix it with some latin in a single word just to put our own unique stamp on it.

Of course, it helped that we never had an academy like French has - so English still manages to evolve quite freely.



IIRC (from a dodgy memory):
US English tends to use a lot of English words that were common in England when the various waves of settlers left Europe for the new world... British English subsequently moved on and the US kept using the old words.

This accounts for differences such as drapes/curtains, faucet/tap, fall/autumn and gray/grey - all of these 'Americanisms' were in common use in England at various points and so aren't Americanisms.

And then there were various Americans who seemed to want to almost adopt an Academy-type approach, and seemed to almost change many words spellings to adopt a missing conformity or to distinguish US English from British English.

US English also managed to evolve, and with it's melting pot attitude has managed to adopt and adapt elements of other languages/cultures much as Britain had historically (and still does).

It's just a shame that Hollywood and US TV is now such big business in the Western world that English seems to be converging to some Fox-approved, homogenous state with much of the rich variety being lost.

Of course, they probably said that in Shakespeares day...

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Ladies and gentlemen, let us put aside our petty differences and get back to blaming everything on the French.

Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano

but why, oh why, do you lot have one of your many accents where everything ends in a question, IT MAKES ME WANT TO STRANGLE YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!

For some reason the Australia accent that does the same bizzarely has no effect on me.

Originally Posted by Ellis_NA

Ah, I see Ascendant has my trouble. I lost Eh Steve, but maybe should do something new. I have also decided my NA is not "north america" but "Not Airborne."