MOO3 finished!

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yeah, and they grew decadent. Americans have moved on from the ancient forms of the language.

Well I guess it's a start. Now if you can get rid of the K in knife and the P in pneumonia I'll be really impressed

[Krsqk]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Well I guess it's a start. Now if you can get rid of the K in knife and the P in pneumonia I'll be really impressed

No, those need to remain as impediments to keep "furriners" from learning English.

[Ruatha]

As a person having learned english in school, speaking a totally different language usually.
I think the British spelling looks nicer, aswell as their prononcuation (difficult word) sounds better than the American Version.

[Fyron]

Their spelling has more useless letters in it. The (marginally) shorter Americanized spellings look much nicer.

Accents are completely subjective, so I won't comment on that one.

[Kamog]

The American spelling is more efficient. You save a character by not having the extra 'u' in those words. Think of the time you save by not having to type or write the u's. Over your lifetime, it adds up. The American Version also saves 1 byte of memory each time it is used.

[Shadowstar]

It's commercialization. As a business-owner I know the value of shorter words. You place an ad just about anywhere and they charge by the letter, not the word. Cutting out unneccessary letters saves the company money, savings which can then be passed on to the customer.

But, I was referring to the "British-ized" proper nouns. It doesn't seem to make much sense to change the spellings of the proper names of the races of MOO3, does it? After all, MOO3 was created in America and thus the "proper" names for the races should remain the same no matter where it goes. After all, you don't see Mexicans or Spaniards tossing o's and a's onto the ends of American proper names do you?

Just imagine: Presidente Georgeo Busho...

Let's see, in British that would be: President Geourge Boush?

Hey this is actually kinda fun...

[E. Albright]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
As a person having learned english in school, speaking a totally different language usually.
I think the British spelling looks nicer, aswell as their prononcuation (difficult word) sounds better than the American Version.

If I may make a few presumptions...

Based on the fact that you're claiming Sweden as your location and have stated that you learned English in school, I'm inclined to presume that you learned British English in school. Thus, 'tis only natural for you to find that we 'Merkins tawk funny.

I'm saying this as a Yank teaching English in France; i.e., a speaker of the Standard (mid-Western) American dialect of English (or as some of my students emphatically insist on asserting, American, as in a different language than English) trying to teach young-ish Francophone whippersnappers who cut their teeth on (theoreticaly standard BBC) British-dialect English. Ugh. They're not the same, and the difference runs deeper than extra u's and "funny pronunciations"; they're bloody well distinct dialects, and not just "regional accents", as some of my compatriots have asserted (though not here, mind you). Mais c'est tout, cela: elles ne sont pas des langues differentes non plus...

Uh, [/RANT]...

E. Albright

ps: To keep this "on topic", I'm worried by MOO3's real-time combat, and justifications be damned; OTOH, as a low-end user who's seen simple, compact and well-written AI perform very well in the past, I'm not at all troubled by the low requirements. Tho' being stuck at 800x600 is strictly non-ideal...

[ January 30, 2003, 14:24: Message edited by: E. Albright ]