Polynesia: The Great Islands

[baseballpie]

 

[TheNoob]

I've decided this story is going to be one long joke.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Sounds good to me

 

[DKVM]

Sounds good to me

OH YEAH! Well guess what, that sounds GREAT to me so HAH!

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Noooooo I have been bested by a superior word!

 

[TheNoob]

RIP CaterpillarKing he was bested (heh)

 

[Spirictum]

Wait a minute, Kamehameha has 500,000 subjects?

Spoiler :

 

[CaterpillarKing]

That says 500.000, which is 500 a kingdom with 500 subjects would be very pathetic

 

[Spirictum]

That says 500.000, which is 500 a kingdom with 500 subjects would be very pathetic

And it wouldn't be over 9000!

Once again a problem between different languages: While there you would write $100,500.50 (a hundred thousand, five hundred and 50 cents) here we would write $100.500,50. Periods and commas have opposite meanings in number stuff.

 

[DKVM]

You know, the Brazilian way kinda makes more sense to me than the way I'm used to for some strange reason.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Maybe you are Brazilian you Texan!

 

[TheNoob]

I just don't understand the whole decimal is a comma though, I can grasp the other, but that just seems so out of place for me.

 

[DKVM]

Maybe you are Brazilian you Texan!

Nope! I don't know about my mom's family but I can trace my dad's family. Dad's family arrived in the New World as one of the Peninsulares lords and later set up a city which in modern day Mexico is a white supremacist place where they are only allowed to marry pureblooded spanish and no one related to the native tribes. A branch of my family there still has Spanish Gold and has an economic monopoly over the city. The branch of my family came from a woman who married a mexican (she kept her family name) who wasn't pureblooded so she was disowned. She changed one letter of her last name to cut any legal connections to her previous family and one of her descendants, my grandmother, eloped to the U.S with my grandfather. This is, of course, what my grandmother told me about my family history. We are working on tracing the family tree back to Europe as well.

Here was the social structure of New Spain

 

[CaterpillarKing]

That's interesting. Would have been more interesting if your dad was related to a caudillo My mom's side goes back to a pretty well-to-do German family. The suffix of her maiden name is what replaced the "von", sort of. It's basically just to show that this family once had a famous title.

 

[TheNoob]

My mom's side goes all the way to Russia and Germany whilst my dad's side tracks back to France.

It's interesting, I basically have a baguette borscht for heretical food.

 

[Spirictum]

If you think this is confusing imagine having to learn and use both ways of writing

That's what happens when you enter college to do something related to math in Brazil.

There are only 2 really good sources of Engineering and Math Knowledge: English and Russian.

Understanding USA Imperialism as you americans probably do, you can imagine that we Brazilians that want to study engineering have to deal with english books, not russian ones right?

And here is where the confusion begins: we have to deal with both ways and exchange between one and the other when reading and writing stuff in college. At least the teachers don't give much attention to which way you use, but sometimes it's really confusing.

If you want to truly study engineering in a brazilian university you'll have to read american books. Brazilian books just suck too much. It seems they are teaching babies, while american books seem to be clear and mature. That's what happens when the country is run by rampant corruption for more then 100 years.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Well you don't use phones or planes designed in Russia unless you're Russia I do understand that though. I guess we're lucky. We have everything we could need, all in our own language. I'll need to tell my friends how spoiled we are funny enough I am taking an engineering class right now.

 

[Spirictum]

Well you don't use phones or planes designed in Russia unless you're Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and probably in smaller quantities many other countries near and some far away (Venezuela bougth some russian planes sometime ago, it was shocking news in Brazil, Chavez was a crazy guy)

There, fixed for you. Many places use russian knowledge, it isn't so bizarre as it seems. But America wins of course.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Well yeah I just didn't want to list all those nations Russian stuff is cheaper and simpler. That's the reason the AK-47 is so popular. Maybe if you can learn enough American engineering techniques you can make Brazil a world power like I did Also Russian would be both a more difficult and useless language to use in longer terms as things are much more often in English than Russian.

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

My plan for college is mech engineering + history b/c mech engineering is a marketable job skill and history is my passion.