Planescape: Torment FTW! So much nostalgiaâŠ
I love all those little storys around the main plot - the main story is really great (and sad, and beautiful), but the amazing moments are the stones in the sennsate room (with the recorded memories), the story of Es-Annon, the girl who walked tons of planes and is afraid of portals now or the giant golem who forges the weapons of entropy.
Itâs just incredibly creative and strange and unique. And the soundtrack is hauntingâŠ
Thatâs so well known in the car community that people call over to factories to figure out what off brand turbos are just clones of high end ones.
I personally hate that and try to buy from the original company when possible.
So you only buy human-cyborg implants from Dangerous Things
If you drew a line down the middle of the country then yes, it would run through âthe mid westâ⊠But the far western end of it.
When looking at compass points you donât call the direction between North and East âNorth Westâ. Can I suggest we divide the continental US into five groups, the Atlantic coast, The Pacific coast, the middle, the inland east and the inland west. Those titles are descriptive and donât need explanations about why âthe mid-westâ includes so many states in the North East quadrant of the country, and none in the South.
Are you surprised that the masses are illogical? In case you are, I give you this. Also, we elected a deranged orange man to lead us.
Can I suggest we divide the continental US into five groups
Sure
Itâs more complicated than just geography though
Kentucky for example is very different then Ohio
Texas is still very much âsouthâ but itâs a very different culture than the south east
Some of the border states vary based on interpretation
Also, stuff like this you donât get to change after 40-50 years regardless of reasons⊠that shits stuck lol
My only exception to all this is Florida⊠the tip of the peninsula, is a very different vibe⊠like a very tropical New York⊠that is NOT the south lol
I like it lol
A lot of the north bordering Midwest states are just south Canada
The east is just fiesty english
Iâm so glad we have inline Google Translate in Discourse: itâs so useful to understand posts in foreign languages:
You arenât wrong but I donât think it is as simple as literacy levels. The number of times I see people asking about, or blatantly ignoring things written on signs I canât believe that they are all illiterate, they just donât read.
For example there is a street corner with a big sign saying âno left turnsâ and yet about 1 time in 10 I get held up there by someone turning left.
I agree its a mix of the two. But Iâm not shocked to hear American literacy rates are so low.
The other day I heard a newsreader saying a foreign place name and wondered just how much damage has been done to American pronunciations by the orthographical changes made by Noah Webster.
My thought was that Americans see âOWâ on the end of a word and assume it should be pronounced as in cow, thus giving us Glazg -OW. Whereas people from the UK know that spellings are just vague suggestions and so pronounce it glaz-go. (Or if you are local glez-gae)
Given that the Dance troupes âThe Cholmondeleysâ and"The Featherstonehaughs" are pronounced âThe Chumleysâ and âThe Fanshawsâ I donât assume that any pronunciation is straightforward.
The one that always bothers me is Americans saying Edinburgh as âEden-Burgâ
Indeed I was born in Glesgy and raised in Embra.
One year I worked out at a golf open down the coast, on my way there I was on a bus behind some American tourists and we passed through âMusselburghâ. One of them turned to the other and said âMuscle Berg, thatâs like Edin Berg, do you think they are related?â I was so tempted to say it is pronounced Borough (burra) and it means Town⊠But I didnât.
Of course just to confuse things Middlesbrough spells it without the first O.
âThe Cholmondeleysâ [âŠ] pronounced âThe Chumleysâ
I pronounce it with a soft âOâ , Chomleys, but iâm not from the UK, so now I know how to pronounce correctly thanks
Interestingly ( to me at least ) about 6 weeks ago, I drove down a âCholmondeley Aveâ and my sat nav even pronounced it âChomleyâ / âChumleyâ I was quietly impressed by Mrs Garmin, I was expecting a butchering of it, something like âCha-mon-da-layâ
âWhy are you working itâs a holiday you should be at home with your family?â
I unironically got asked this on Thanksgiving.