Language Anti-Talent - Page 2

sir_pudding · 01-30-2018, 09:17 PM

Shouldn't anything along these lines reduce language defaults?

Reducing all defaults by one step seems mechanically easy, and should be worth at least a quirk.

Flyndaran · 01-30-2018, 10:04 PM

That makes sense.
It's like how horrible I am with accents and needed my GF to translate an England English movie to American English for me. It was apparently easy to understand for her.

Phantasm · 01-30-2018, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran

That makes sense.
It's like how horrible I am with accents and needed my GF to translate an England English movie to American English for me. It was apparently easy to understand for her.

Were they speaking upper-crust Oxford English or lower-class Cockney English? The former is easy for most Americans to understand, but Cockney is a dialect all its own at times.

"If a Cockney, an Ozarkian, and an Australian all got together in a bar, the only mutually intelligible word would be 'beer'." :)

01-30-2018, 09:17 PM	#11
sir_pudding Wielder of Smart Pants Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ventura CA	Re: Language Anti-Talent Shouldn't anything along these lines reduce language defaults? Reducing all defaults by one step seems mechanically easy, and should be worth at least a quirk.

01-30-2018, 10:04 PM	#12
Flyndaran Untagged Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon	Re: Language Anti-Talent That makes sense. It's like how horrible I am with accents and needed my GF to translate an England English movie to American English for me. It was apparently easy to understand for her. __________________ Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check.