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Or the ice of Hoth, or the Cloud City of Bespin, or the swamps of Dagobah, or the forests of Endor.
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Jan 16, 2016 13:13
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How come planets in the star wars universe all seem to have one climate that covers the entire world regardless of latitude?
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Jan 16, 2016 13:41
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Them the characters would be saying "there's a secret base in the Arctic of planet Hoth. By the way most of the planet is actually quite warm but we won't have a chance to go there." Also R2D2 rolls ever where.
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Jan 16, 2016 14:40
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I'm no expert on the prequels, so I might be really wrong on this, but the wheel apparently doesn't exist in the Star Wars universe. Every vehicle either hovers or walks. It's worse in Star Trek--all planetside aliens walk, all the time. And refer to "my people" a lot
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Jan 16, 2016 14:51
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artsy fartsy posted:It's worse in Star Trek--all planetside aliens walk, all the time. And refer to "my people" a lot To be fair to the second point, it's an established part of Star Trek that when a civilization progresses to the spacefaring phase that they generally have become unified as a society, Earth included
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Jan 16, 2016 15:51
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I'm no expert on the prequels, so I might be really wrong on this, but the wheel apparently doesn't exist in the Star Wars universe. Every vehicle either hovers or walks. Uhh, excuse me, I believe you'll find that there are several examples of wheels in Star Wars: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wheel
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Jan 17, 2016 01:02
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I just realised that "jet" as in "jet black" refers to lignite. Not some kind of paint used on jet planes.
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Jan 17, 2016 01:23
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Centigrade, the old name for Celsius, refers to the 100 degrees between boiling and freezing of water in that scale.
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Jan 17, 2016 01:33
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I'm no expert on the prequels, so I might be really wrong on this, but the wheel apparently doesn't exist in the Star Wars universe. Every vehicle either hovers or walks. ...R2D2?
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Jan 17, 2016 04:31
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Intoluene posted:I just realised that "jet" as in "jet black" refers to lignite. Not some kind of paint used on jet planes. I was going to correct you and say it refers to the gemstone, jet, not to coal, but it turns out the gemstone is lignite 
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Jan 17, 2016 05:59
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It took me forever to realize that "matinee", in reference to theater showings or whatever, is the same as the French word, because nobody pronounces it or spells it right.
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Jan 17, 2016 11:23
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Ryoshi posted:...R2D2? Does he have wheels? I honestly can't tell if he does or if he just hovers.
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Jan 17, 2016 12:45
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wookie pedia says they are "motorized all-terrain treads"
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Jan 17, 2016 15:53
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Vashro posted:wookie pedia says they are "motorized all-terrain treads" yeah you can see that in A New Hope with the sandcrawler.
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Jan 17, 2016 17:59
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Lady Naga posted:It took me forever to realize that "matinee", in reference to theater showings or whatever, is the same as the French word, because nobody pronounces it or spells it right. How the gently caress are people pronouncing it?
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Jan 17, 2016 23:44
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KillHour posted:How the gently caress are people pronouncing it? mattin' eh.
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Jan 17, 2016 23:51
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how the hell do you think it's supposed to be pronounced, then
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InediblePenguin posted:how the hell do you think it's supposed to be pronounced, then mah-tea-nay. I get that it's a loan word but I grew up bilingual so any French words that aren't pronounced the way you'd say them in French trip me up (see: sans, rendezvous).
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Jan 18, 2016 02:56
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Lady Naga posted:mah-tea-nay. How are you hearing people pronounce rendezvous? Is it not ron-day-voo? Were my Quebecois french textbooks full of lies?
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Jan 18, 2016 03:10
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Henchman of Santa posted:How are you hearing people pronounce rendezvous? Is it not ron-day-voo? Were my Quebecois french textbooks full of lies?
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Jan 18, 2016 03:17
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I'll be sure to steer clear of the subject if I ever meet her during a sampling of horse derves
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Jan 18, 2016 03:31
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I beat you all to this subject by like three months with Camus.  I didn't want to cause a derail at the time but since we're talking about this anyway, I don't see how "kah-moo" is so totally off from the link that was posted that someone felt the need to post a link and act incredulous.
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Jan 18, 2016 03:39
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I guarantee it's an extremely subtle difference in vowel shape that only native French speakers can hear or indeed care about.
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Henchman of Santa posted:How are you hearing people pronounce rendezvous? Is it not ron-day-voo? Were my Quebecois french textbooks full of lies? stubblyhead posted:I guarantee it's an extremely subtle difference in vowel shape that only native French speakers can hear or indeed care about. Yeah it's really not that different, the only change is that the last syllable goes from "voo" to "vuu", and the first syllable sounds like you're taking a bite out of an apple. It's not a big deal or anything, it just always sounds "off" to me.
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Jan 18, 2016 03:52
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Words like "valet" and "foyer" are properly pronounced as read in English. People try to put on airs with those but nope.
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Jan 18, 2016 03:52
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Lady Naga posted:Yeah it's really not that different, the only change is that the last syllable goes from "voo" to "vuu", and the first syllable sounds like you're taking a bite out of an apple. It's not a big deal or anything, it just always sounds "off" to me. The problem is that most native English speakers cannot make the proper sounds for those words. It's the closest we can do without years of practice. When you add that to the fact that native English speakers have a MUCH wider variety of accents than native French speakers (and the fact that we have a poo poo ton of loan words with weird and non standard rules), you'll understand why we aren't very precise about proper pronunciation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-en-iDeZEE KillHour has a new favorite as of 04:43 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Jan 18, 2016 04:40
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On va camping sur la weekend et on va mange les hamburgers et les hotdogs.
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Jan 18, 2016 04:42
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Lady Naga posted:On va camping sur la weekend et on va mange les hamburgers et les hotdogs. It's the best excuse I got. v  v
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Jan 18, 2016 04:46
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Canadian French doesn't count. You can fake fluency in that by getting drunk and rattling off a list of things you might see in a cathedral.
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Jan 18, 2016 04:51
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syscall girl posted:Words like "valet" and "foyer" are properly pronounced as read in English. Are you saying that you pronounce valet so it rhymes like pallet? If you're going to somewhere fancy enough that someone takes your keys and parks for you, I don't think you have to worry about sounding like Mr Fancywords. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKGoVefhtMQ
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RandomFerret posted:Canadian French doesn't count. You can fake fluency in that by getting drunk and rattling off a list of things you might see in a cathedral. Excuse me that's Quebec French. Ontario French has the decency to comprise 75% of our linguistic makeup with English words.
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Dr_Amazing posted:Are you saying that you pronounce valet so it rhymes like pallet? If you're going to somewhere fancy enough that someone takes your keys and parks for you, I don't think you have to worry about sounding like Mr Fancywords. No. I'm thinking of the movie Roadhouse. And yes, you pronounce it like pallet.
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Jan 18, 2016 05:35
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syscall girl posted:No. gently caress. I always used the mispronunciation.
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Lady Naga posted:Excuse me that's Quebec French. Ontario French has the decency to comprise 75% of our linguistic makeup with English words. I learned everything I need to know about Canada from Mike Myers and The Trailer Park Boys. syscall girl posted:And yes, you pronounce it like pallet. I've only ever heard people from the UK do this. In the US, it's pronounced like it is in French. KillHour has a new favorite as of 15:46 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Jan 18, 2016 15:41
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Lady Naga posted:Excuse me that's Quebec French. Ontario French has the decency to comprise 75% of our linguistic makeup with English words. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize. I have relatives up in Penetang, so you know that I mean that when I say it. I am so, so sorry.
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Roro posted:gently caress. I always used the mispronunciation. A val-LAY parks your car. A VAL-ett is your body man/butler.
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Besesoth posted:A val-LAY parks your car. A VAL-ett is your body man/butler. A butler and a valet are different things. A valet is basically a PA, a butler is in charge of managing the household and other servants.
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Besesoth posted:A val-LAY parks your car. A VAL-ett is your body man/butler. Apparently, one camp was loving it up long enough that now they're just both ok. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/valet http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/valet It happened to "often" and now it's happened to 'valet' OFF-EN
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I just found out in the mission Flatline in GTA4 you can put on doctors scrubs to get into the dudes room to kill him without getting a wanted level. I did this mission probably 50 times back in the day because you'd get 4-5 stars for walking to the guys room in normal clothes. Holy poo poo. 
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