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RE: First Impression
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:08 pm
by Senior Drill
ORIGINAL: Derouin
I get you Senior Drill. I knew you were being a bit tongue in cheek. BUT the thing to remember is that French Canadians are not a small minority relegated to the province of Quebec. Last time I knew the number, America was comprised of approximately 11-13% african americans. Coincedentaly, that is around the same percentage of people in the world who are left handed!
Canada has 31.1% of people of French descent. Huge difference in the percentage. This is comprised of people who are ethnically french and speak french, and those that are ethnically french and yet couldn't speak french to save their lives.
Kinda like all the people with German last names in the States.
I understand Derouin. Albet caring is another matter... Make the file. Post it as a Real CANNames.txt file as an alternative. It can and probably will be hosted on the Matrix TLD mod site for others to download and install to their games. You will have made your first CC mod.
Just do it.
RE: First Impression
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:12 pm
by Derouin
Stupid question-- how do I attach a txt file to this message board?
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:30 am
by CSO_Talorgan
1. No wish to become involved in Canada's internal politics but there is at least one Canadian aboriginal person (apologies if that is not the politically correct term) buried in the military cemetary at Nijmegen.
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ORIGINAL: Senior Drill
They could be added at the end, but for a better chance to show in a battle group, reordering the list alphabetically would improve the odds
How would an alphabetical reorder improve the odds of the game selecting a given name?
Does the game select names preferentially from the top of the list?
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:29 am
by DasHoff
do a lot of ppl still speak french in canada? having 2 learn a 2nd language would suck
this coming from an ignorant australian. haha
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:45 am
by Senior Drill
ORIGINAL: CSO_Talorgan
...... How would an alphabetical reorder improve the odds of the game selecting a given name?
Does the game select names preferentially from the top of the list?
No, it is entirely random. I could be wrong about the re-oordering, not being any sort of statistician. Perhaps it makes no difference where a particular name is in the list, it still has the same chance to be used as any other.
ORIGINAL: Derouin
Stupid question-- how do I attach a txt file to this message board?
In the Reply to Message window you'll see "File" under the smileys. Next to "File" is a hyperlink titled "Click her to upload!" Clicking the link will open a file upload window.
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:21 pm
by Pzt_Serk
ORIGINAL: DasHoff
do a lot of ppl still speak french in canada? having 2 learn a 2nd language would suck
this coming from an ignorant australian. haha
Of course... more than 80% of people in Quebec speak French, and 50% of us are billingual.
Also, English speaking canadian are now learning French so they can have something to prove they are not lost americans [:D]
Learning more than one language is very important in today's world and I suggest that you, as an australian, start learning some asian language asap [;)]
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:11 pm
by GoodGuy
Learn German, it may be useful after our next attempt to steamroll other nations.... we may make it to Australia, next time.
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RE: First Impression
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:52 pm
by Derouin
ORIGINAL: DasHoff
do a lot of ppl still speak french in canada? having 2 learn a 2nd language would suck
this coming from an ignorant australian. haha
Ha. French is the co-official language of the country! Learning french for anglophones depends on the context etc. But yeah, french is everywhere in many places, and in others it is slightly hidden, but still there.
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:05 pm
by Tejszd
I thought we would avoid the language subject people??? Ya French is everywhere but don't post an English only sign or the police will be coming for you....
Actually French is not everywhere, most products have French, but in most provinces it is not mandatory to use French except for the governments which must be able to provide services in both official languages....
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:32 am
by DasHoff
they tend to push japanese a bit in australian schools, its prolly the major 2nd language ppl learn. tho language in school is very basic stuff, and you forget everything as soon as you leave. i can count to 10 in japanese and thats it. chinese would probably be more beneficial
i dont really think theres any need tho. we have an ignorant attitude like the english and usa: u speak english or gtfo
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:10 pm
by CSO_Talorgan
ORIGINAL: Senior Drill
No, it is entirely random. I could be wrong about the re-oordering, not being any sort of statistician. Perhaps it makes no difference where a particular name is in the list, it still has the same chance to be used as any other.
As you know I have my own surnames files. I tried to adjust these so that common names would appear more often by adding in extra copies of these names. I became convinced that this had the opposite effect! The more common names seemed to disappear completely. Furthermore, I noticed that the program seemed to have a "liking" for certain names, which always seemed to appear. Odd.
RE: First Impression
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:13 pm
by CSO_Talorgan
ORIGINAL: GoodGuy
Learn German, it may be useful after our next attempt to steamroll other nations.... we may make it to Australia, next time.
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