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Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:56 pm
by mogami
AmiralLaurent requested this poll
Just for fun
A poll labelled "Does WITP increase player's knowledge"
"Without checking the game, or a book, or this poll's results, what is
the right writing:
1) Balikpapan
2) Balikpakan
3) Balipkapan
4) Balipkakan
5) No idea, but I know how to write "oil"
"
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:00 pm
by Onime No Kyo
Actually, I cheated, I knew that one from the old Sega Genesis P.T.O.
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:05 pm
by Tom Hunter
No increase in knowledge I've known where it was for decades
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:17 pm
by 33Vyper
ummmm I....no...ummm O....I .... L
[;)]
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:04 pm
by BraveHome
Actually, this beggars a discussion on the definitions of 'knowledge':
1. the fact or condition of knowing something
2. the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth through reasoning
#1 is the spelling of Balikpapan.
#2 is how its location/attributes influence a player's decisions (thus causing reflection on how it influenced RL decisions too).
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:09 pm
by DrewMatrix
If youi mean specifkly duz it help my noludg of how to spel forin names, shurr. I just think how Niihau or Lahaina R speld on the map and then I no I can safly exclude that from posibul kerrekt spellings
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:10 pm
by BraveHome
And the beauty of the mind is that it can make easy work of this [:D]
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:16 pm
by DrewMatrix
Ih Fyuspel fanetikly, anativ english Peaker can rede it.
It sarder foryu if Englisciza lernd langwich.
(Any hear auld enuf to have red "A Spaniard In the Works" by John Lennon?)
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:27 pm
by BraveHome
True, but you're not spelling phonetically [;)]
English is, in many linguists opinions, the most difficult major language in the world to learn as a foreign language. The reason is it is so irregular (spelling, grammar, pronunciation). I studied many languages in college (Russian major, Chinese/Arabic/Latin too) and they were a cakewalk compared with English.
So my hat's off to all non-native English speakers who can communicate in English (however they spell things).
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:32 pm
by DrewMatrix
(I was an English major leaning towards linguistics as an undergraduate).
English is really flexible. No real rules, not permanent ones anyway. So it keeps adapting and changing as either the world changes (with new technology words or careers) or the geography/culture chane (for example it went to Australia and became a language most other English Speakers can't understand at all. Something about surfing terms mixed in with how to cook seafood. And 400 words to describe a pint of beer).
That flexibility makes it irregular and hard to learn, but also gives it a power that is (one of) the things making it the, uh, "Lingua Franca" of the world.
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:39 pm
by freeboy
If youi mean specifkly duz it help my noludg of how to spel forin names, shurr. I just think how Niihau or Lahaina R speld on the map and then I no I can safly exclude that from posibul kerrekt spellings
Candidate for the Brady reform school for wayward witpers
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:09 am
by Tristanjohn
ORIGINAL: Beezle
(I was an English major leaning towards linguistics as an undergraduate).
English is really flexible. No real rules, not permanent ones anyway. So it keeps adapting and changing as either the world changes (with new technology words or careers) or the geography/culture chane (for example it went to Australia and became a language most other English Speakers can't understand at all. Something about surfing terms mixed in with how to cook seafood. And 400 words to describe a pint of beer).
That flexibility makes it irregular and hard to learn, but also gives it a power that is (one of) the things making it the, uh, "Lingua Franca" of the world.
What you say is true (hell, you can speak English in any direction or collection of directions and be understood mainly--just try that with Spanish, for example), but don't forget the ecclectic nature of its native speakers, which is the primary reason the language has grown so fast and audaciously over the years. (Yes, thank you, France, for your s. [:D])
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:13 am
by DrewMatrix
We have a partner in our group who speaks "English" very differently than I do, in accent and in word usage. She is Indian. In my country (the US) and hers (India) English has been spoken there, for, what, 400 years+? Gradually going its own way a in Punjab and California
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:19 am
by Tankerace
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Actually, I cheated, I knew that one from the old Sega Genesis P.T.O.
You too huh? I loved that game. PTO II was a fun one too, and PTO 4 is an ok game, but there is a special place in my heart for the original.
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:56 am
by DaveConn
Learned this from WITP, but not from Matrix: the old SPI WITP of 20+ years ago.
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:23 am
by RUPD3658
ORIGINAL: Beezle
We have a partner in our group who speaks "English" very differently than I do, in accent and in word usage. She is Indian. In my country (the US) and hers (India) English has been spoken there, for, what, 400 years+? Gradually going its own way a in Punjab and California
At least Californias can be understood (I married one). I need a translator to speak to most people from Lousiana, Texas, or Maine. The only words I can understand from them regard hot sauce, guns, or Lobsta', respectivly. [;)]
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:28 am
by Tristanjohn
ORIGINAL: Beezle
We have a partner in our group who speaks "English" very differently than I do, in accent and in word usage. She is Indian. In my country (the US) and hers (India) English has been spoken there, for, what, 400 years+? Gradually going its own way a in Punjab and California
That's precisely what English does. It goes its own way, and more power to it for doing so!
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:17 am
by Tom Hunter
I was at a convention in Atlanta last fall talking to an Indian woman who was looking for tea. She explained she favored it over coffee because "the English ruled our country for 150 years." "Ours too" I said.
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:17 am
by Tristanjohn
ORIGINAL: Tom Hunter
I was at a convention in Atlanta last fall talking to an Indian woman who was looking for tea. She explained she favored it over coffee because "the English ruled our country for 150 years." "Ours too" I said.
Excellent rejoinder!
RE: Does WITP increase player's knowledge
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:31 am
by DrewMatrix
She explained she favored it over coffee because "the English ruled our country for 150 years."
Actually I think she had it backwards. Tea was in India before it was in Britain, right? (it came via Java). So the reason the _English_ prefer tea over coffee is that they ruled India for 150 years!