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Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-12-01, 02:06:42

String I cannot fathom why you are so oddly puzzled at my statement. It could not have been more explanatory. Once again I will repeat that there are NO statistics nationally for the number of people shot down by the various police forces over there. Saying that the FBI were told years ago to start amassing these did hot happen either. Heavens, I could have figured that out in first year of secondary school. 

rjh - my apologies for delaying my reply.

I was puzzled because it seems to me that there is in fact data on this (to which I referred in the link I gave) so I thought I might have missed a nuance of meaning in what you wrote.

Computer games can teach you a lot if you let them.

You haven't heard me speak. Admittedly, I like to think I sound fairly close to native. Definitely close enough to fool my fellow Europeans into thinking I'm an American

Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall

original CD-ROM the next time I visit my parents.

I was going to say that I would probably find your accent interesting...

Haven't played that one. Spent, probably, too much time with the CnC series tho.

If you yourself speak with the southern so-called drawl, that is.

CnC was pretty much my favorite game ever in the late '90s.

nd hey, make sure to contact me if you ever come by Belgium.

I'm not sure. Depends on what you'd call it. States (or regions around them) have unique dialects to me. A TV southern drawl doesn't sound natural to me either. It's hard to fake a genuine southern accent. They always put too much drag on slang without the rite inflection.

Don't you miss the chirp and hiss of dial-up? lol.

SC took it for me tho. Favorited it before it was more balanced and cool. You could spawn a copy of it free for multiplayer and with an unfair amount of tinkering play over serial or dial up... Then came battlenet and Korean ass-whoopings.

I don't know about on TV

but I've met my wife's family from southern Illinois.

Just LAN at friends and the single player missions for me.    The CnC replacement was AoE.

I didn't know many people with a network when those came out. But on the subject of old games and Age of empires... I bopped into the boy's room like a week or so ago and he was playing Castles II. I forgot I had even showed him that. Loved that game and Conquest of the New World.

Sounds a lot like Kentucky and parts of Tennessee to me. Some of the northern dialects are more nasally spoken. That makes a mess in S. Indiana, wow.

In the NCS region, that extra vowel sound is an integral part of the big shift. The tensing of the short a starts a domino effect. First, the short o rotates into the newly created short-a void. People in Detroit have a jab, not a job. (Or don’t have one, as the case these days may sadly be.) NCS speakers then slide the wha sound into the slot formerly occupied by short o. They now pronounce caught like people from Boston do, but they pronounce cot the way other people say cat. One link down the chain, but tilts toward bought, and further down the short e in words like bet starts to sound like but. The final link in this chain may be the short i of bit elbowing its way in the direction of bet, though its course isn’t entirely clear just yet.

This may seem a bit abstract on paper. But when you hear someone refer to “bosses with the antennas on the tap,” and realize he or she is talking about buses that have antennas on top, the drastic nature of this shift becomes clear as a bell. Or a bull, perhaps. You see the problem.

I'm a little surprised he likes it.

but often the control schemes in those older games aren't quite as sophisticated as later on.

It's a lot better than that latest disaster, Rome 2: Total War.

I think Rome 2 (and 1) were pretty good as soon as I got over the annoyances with historicity, which was quickly. As (military) re-enactment of the Roman Empire I haven't seen better, politically they fell apart. The gameplay was reasonable, longish, but with variety and real choices.

Empire on the other hand is out of bounds. The battles had lost their hardware-based 20 units constraint, and had grown too big to keep my attention. If it could run by itself on a big-screen TV, fine. You could see the progression to WWI: Total Trench Warfare.

I think Rome 2 (and 1) were pretty good as soon as I got over the annoyances with historicity, which was quickly.

but most of the Total War games have Darthmod

Sounds a lot like Kentucky and parts of Tennessee to me. Some of the northern dialects are more nasally spoken. That makes a mess in S. Indiana, wow.

In the NCS region, that extra vowel sound is an integral part of the big shift. The tensing of the short a starts a domino effect. First, the short o rotates into the newly created short-a void. People in Detroit have a jab, not a job. (Or don’t have one, as the case these days may sadly be.)

I can get over lack of accuracy and content in the campaign as long as the battles keep the same feel, with at least some of the control updates I expect. (Ship battles, and done right is a good example.)

First, I don't say 'jab' for job, I say 'job' with an 'ah' sound, as do all my siblings. Furthermore, I have never heard a Detroiter use the 'jab' pronunciation. 83% of Detroit citizens are Black, and I don't think that 'jab' is common among them.

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-12-21, 05:15:27

First, I don't say 'jab' for job, I say 'job' with an 'ah' sound, as do all my siblings. Furthermore, I have never heard a Detroiter use the 'jab' pronunciation. 83% of Detroit citizens are Black, and I don't think that 'jab' is common among them.

Is there a reason that you can think of that might explain why 83% of blacks are unemployed?

In many ways I think battles haven't looked right ever since Empire.

I grew up in Detroit. One brother and three sisters still live in Detroit or nearby.

First, I don't say 'jab' for job, I say 'job' with an 'ah' sound, as do all my siblings. Furthermore, I have never heard a Detroiter use the 'jab' pronunciation. 83% of Detroit citizens are Black, and I don't think that 'jab' is common among them.

Furthermore, there is no single Canadian accent. The word 'about' ranges from 'aboot' to 'abowt'. In some areas it has a Scottish tinge.

83%  are unemployed

Why are they unemployable is the question .