Postby viktor » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:58 pm
yes there is quite a large grey area in terms of which words can and cant be called part of english. words from other languages get integrated much faster nowadays because of media and 'pop culture'
uber is a german word added to the english language within the past couple decades for example.
i live in canada, i wasnt in french immersion but i did take french class all through school, sometimes i end up speaking franglais but my english chars do avoid using hardcore french especially since they are in contact with english characters and have nver met a frenchman. a couple of my chars put forward the effort to learn spanish as it is becomming very prevalent on the greater english isles and they at least try to use a couple spanish phrases when speaking with them like a greeting or introduction. i do however also have a couple hardcore fascist chars, well one is and there are a couple that will not 'cater' to a multilingual society. i used to have one who was what you would refer to as a nazi in many ways, zeus darwin, anyone speaking anything that was not english earned a death sentence... also usually anyone he could drag single handedly earned a death sentence, all about roleplay.
but to avoid going off on a tangent, i do think that people should put an effort into using a majority of the language they spawned in and not completely convert over to a different language hiding as a member of a linguistic sleeper cell after 2 days.
i did have a german char once, i used a translator to get a clerer understanding of what was being said and i used it to translate the odd english word into german so i could complete my sentences, i may use it to translate spanish into english for chars of mine who are "better versed" in spanish with legitimate exposure and time.
there are some terms/expressions that are purely earth related have no historical reference in cantr but are firmly very firmly entrenched in language, "for christ sakes man get up!" jesus the great mesiah never existed in cantr, nor did the christian faith because he never was in cantr, but the expressions are very much a part of language in rl and have been for many hundreds of years, another one is "it's murphy's law" in cantr it's like "wtf?" but we understand in rl perfectly, and in italian "marone" the virgin mary never existed in cantr, heck she was made famous because of her son who also did not exist in cantr as previously mentioned but at least on sopranos in rl you hear it used frenquently in language, there are numerous words within language itself that are very much a part of every day speech and lingo and have been much longer than a great number of earth's countries, but could be referred to as questionable in usage in cantr because they have a historic rl connection that did not exist in game, and carl marx never founded marxism in cantr but alas marxism is mentioned in the game, i do not know how it came about, did someone in game with the last name marx come up with it?
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viktor on Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
