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by HB of CJ » Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:29 pm | |
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Conceiled. Concelled. Consealed. Concealed. It all sounds the same now. C ... O ... N ... C ...E ...A ...L ... E ... D. Concealed. Got it. Sorry. Slight stroke or big TIA. I also have lost most of my German, Spanish and Russian ... and visual first names. Age marches on and all that stuff. HB of CJ (old coot)
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by Louis R » Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:29 pm | |
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that's what makes English so much fun. we've stolen so much vocabulary from so many places we can't tell it apart anymore
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by DDHvi » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:37 pm | |
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It can be fun counting the number of languages that have contributed in one way or another to English. Spelling according to the language the work came from is part of the confusion. I recall a piece, "Meihem in ce klasroom," IIRC, from Astounding that outlined how by changing one thing at a time and allowing a bit of time to get used to it before the next change, it would be possible to make English phonetic, instead of about 80-90% phonetic. One grade school teacher taught phonics, but had a jail cell diagram on the bulletin board, and any not phonetic words were exiled there and the students told they would just need to memorize them. Making English more phonetic has been suggested at times, but the only progress seems to have been by the advertisers. We will come thru, phonics or no. BTW, I suggest the Chinese ideograms are still used because of the multiple languages there. It means learning one new language for R/W instead of a dozen with their phonic systems. The alphabetical system works best where one language is dominant. Anyone wanting to start learning the ideograms should look at: http://chineasy.org/ Douglas Hvistendahl
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by coldsteel » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:14 pm | |
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And there, children, is how a thread gets derailed...
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by Roguevictory » Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:59 am | |
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1: The Federation probably keeps a ton of defenses on the Alpha Centauri side of the warp point, and possibly sends occasional recon drones through to keep an eye on things. Giving up that system to avoid caretaker duty was probably considered worth it, and the CSU might have been viewed as a shield. Any enemies coming in that way would have to fight through CSU territory to reach Alpha Centauri giving the Federation time to prepare and a means to study their new enemy in action. 2: The CSU got any bug systems with native sentient species and systems to form a supply line to such systems. Obviously the bug systems the rebels had to patrol or worry about didn't have any native species and were accessible to both sides without crossing the CSU supply lines. |
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by coldsteel » Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:09 pm | |
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Also, remember, like someone said, Insurrection was written years before ISW-4. The Pesthouse chain was never considered till then. I believe Marvin had to write up some revisionist Encyclopedia Galactica entries when the game module came out.
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