Na-vuh-gah-bull rivers
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Trav'ling Canuck
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yesgo rivers / nogo rivers seems like the perfect intersection of simplicity and clarity to me.
brick623
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This reminds me of a criticism I once got when I first moved to London.
I tended to give preference to English words of clear Latin origin (e.g. such as 'construct' or 'respond', instead of 'build' or 'answer'), which was interpreted by this person as me attempting to sound pretentious, when in fact it was just due to my poor command of the English language. I was using the words most familiar to me. It probably sounded comical to hear such words being used along with poor grammar.
Had I been a sailor back then, I would have most definitely "navigated" rivers and seas, not 'sailed' them.
I guess you could separate them as 'Creeks' and 'Rivers', but the dimensions of a creek aren't really appropriate for a Civ game.
'Navigable River' is clear and no different than 'Impassable
brick623
Chieftain
This really resonated with me. When I learnt French it made me realise there's basically two levels to English, it has been colonised by Norman french so much. There are almost always 2 (or more) ways to say the same thing, with the "posh/pretentious" sounding way coming from the previously french speaking arostocrats and the "low" coming from saxon germanic. Mixed in with some Danish words.
Ironically the actual indigenous languages of Britain like Welsh sound like elvish or something, very poetic.
Of course that was all due to conquests, not some gradual evolution. It would make more,sense if the era system leads to empire collapse (like western Rome) or empire survival (like eastern rome). Then new civs take the place of the collapsed civs. I hope Firaxis' next reveal is gameplay footage of era changing.
Ironically the actual indigenous languages of Britain like Welsh sound like elvish or something, very poetic.
Of course that was all due to conquests, not some gradual evolution. It would make more,sense if the era system leads to empire collapse (like western Rome) or empire survival (like eastern rome). Then new civs take the place of the collapsed civs. I hope Firaxis' next reveal is gameplay footage of era changing.
