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    Scarborough Fair

    I was all hyped up for the in-game music by all the previews, with people saying how each civ has their own theme that evolves with the age... Instead, all I ever hear is, regardless of what culture my civ is, is some rendition of Scarborough Fair. Like literally, all I have in my head every...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    Many terms are in journals, but they're also spoken to people in the same group. I honestly can't even think of a good example of a case where people would not be familiar with technical words and not understand them, if they've already been trained. Regarding medical terms, that's completely...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    Regarding technical language, it's not largely irrelevant. There are some differences, but for the most part, most things have an actual pronunciation when they come into existence. The words I'm talking about are medical, and despite there being thousands of medical terms, there's still a way...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    Agreed. What's really at the root of everything is this whole cultural shift of "acceptable ignorance." I feel like almost everywhere, no one can tolerate being corrected (with regards to language/pronunciation), giving excuses like "this is how I've always pronounced this." And I'm talking...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    Tokimune is still Tokeemooneh in English. No excuse for that, given karaoke, kamikaze, and sake (all of which are often incorrectly pronounced with an "ee" instead of an "eh")
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    No leader animations

    For some reason, my leaders are now static and there are no voices. I don't see an option to change in the settings, and my graphics settings are maxed...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    Again, that's a loose definition of "mispronunciation." By your logic, we can pronounce any guy name Jose as "Joes." Yes, people understand what you mean when you say "Joes" or "kwesadillah," but you make yourself look like a fool. Names like Qin are no different. The only time that it's really...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    The bottom line is in the end, the official ENGLISH pronunciation is Chin (people are complicating things by arguing about tones, which do not exist on a word/syllable-level in English). This has never changed throughout history, even though with the advent of pinyin, his spelling has (it used...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    For all the talk in these forums about Civ being Eurocentric, this is a very Eurocentric view. It's like saying that all J's should be pronounced like in English. Pinyin (the Mandarin Romanization) is highly effective and doesn't need to conform to western languages. All you have to do on your...
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    Eh, I don't think it needs to be that correct. English isn't a tonal language, so there's no expectation to include the tones. Native pronunciation isn't an expected standard either. Or else we'd have to say Vladimir Putin as "VlaDEEmir" and throw in a Russian accent while we're at it.
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    "Kin Shi Huang"

    I'm kind of shocked that this made it into the final game, but sitting through China's opening, the narrator says "Kin Shi Huang" instead of the actual pronunciation ("Chin"). Even the weekly Civ spotlight videos pronounced it right.
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    What about the Ottomans ?

    True, this is one of the biggest inconsistencies in Civilization. Take three empires, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Soviet Union. All were multiethnic/multinational superpowers, but their primary base was in the English, Turkish, and Russian people, respectively. Civ has...
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    What about the Ottomans ?

    The Ottomans and modern Turkey is essentially the same "civilization" for the purposes of this game, especially since they are direct successors. Much like the Germans covers everything from modern Germany back to at least the HRE, the Chinese through multiple dynasties, the Russians with the...
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    Civ 6, in Eurocentric cultural analysis

    I personally have never really bought in to the whole "Eurocentrism" complaint. The reason Civ is Eurocentric is because the world as we know it is essentially Eurocentric. Much of the military conquests, science, and culture comes from European powers who have made much more impact "per capita"...
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    Civ VI Civ and City-State Symbology

    There are only so many colors, so many colors have to be arbitrary. I think there are some classic color schemes that are never going to change for cultural reasons... America = white on blue, England = white on red, Russia = black on yellow, Germany = black on gray gray, France = yellow on...
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