The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVII

[Phrossack]

How to say "thank you" in Babylonian?

We are playing Rhye's and Fall of Civilization MP mod for BTS via email with 6 other humans. I am Carthage and my Vassal Babylonia just gifted me a Phalanx unit to fight Rome, who is down to 2 cities. Now, years earlier Babylon got that Phalanx from Greece by exchanging him for Asharittu Bowmen. I felt so grateful. SO how to make them feel special?

Also why Wikipedia or any online resource has no articles about elite Asharittu warriors? They are really Assyrians, I gather.

I think the real question is how did Firaxis even figure out what all those Babylonian and Sumerian phrases were. Unless they're using another language, just as the Egyptians speak Egyptian Arabic.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Can a good voice (range and other factors) be acquired through training?

 

[Cutlass]

Up to a point, sure. Many people undergo voice training. Mainly singers and actors, but anyone who has to do a lot of presentations may do some voice training to prepare for it.

http://www.wikihow.com/Train-Your-Voice

How much anyone will gain from it would depend on how hard you trained, and if you started with any physical limitations that couldn't be readily overcome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_training

You could probably find a voice trainer in just about any city or larger university in the US.

 

[madviking]

yes, there are vocal lessons

 

[Zkribbler]

Can a good voice (range and other factors) be acquired through training?

Once upon a time, I was sitting in an outdoor restaurant in Pasadena, California. I was trying to read, but I was being bombarded by the loud voice of a patron on the other side of the patio. I began to turn around in order to ask him to please speak in a normal tone. Then I realized, he was speaking in a normal tone. His voice was merely carrying effortlessly across the patio. I thought to myself, this is someone in show business who's had professional voice training. Yep. When I looked, I saw it was Billy Joel.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Once upon a time, I was sitting in an outdoor restaurant in Pasadena, California. I was trying to read, but I was being bombarded by the loud voice of a patron on the other side of the patio. I began to turn around in order to ask him to please speak in a normal tone. Then I realized, he was speaking in a normal tone. His voice was merely carrying effortlessly across the patio. I thought to myself, this is someone in show business who's had professional voice training. Yep. When I looked, I saw it was Billy Joel.

You might have gotten surprised. Every navy veteran I know agrees their friends/wives/etc say they 'just get too loud'. Talking over machinery constantly it develops. Can't say I can sing, but I can elevate normal speaking and just talk to my neighbor across the street, who has to shout back.

 

[Takhisis]

How to say "thank you" in Babylonian?

We are playing Rhye's and Fall of Civilization MP mod for BTS via email with 6 other humans. I am Carthage and my Vassal Babylonia just gifted me a Phalanx unit to fight Rome, who is down to 2 cities. Now, years earlier Babylon got that Phalanx from Greece by exchanging him for Asharittu Bowmen. I felt so grateful. SO how to make them feel special?

By bringing them the wonders of your own civilisation!

 

[Antilogic]

How does CFC determine what ads to show me? I don't visit "conservative" news sites, so I am guessing the ads come from trigger words in my posts or something? I mean, I read BBC and Kansas City Star primarily, so I am not sure how my browser cookies could lead it to think I read conservative news. Eh, either way, it was an amusing ad

Google can pull keywords off the page you are viewing to tailor their text ads. I'd suspect that's what happened.

 

[Takhisis]

Read the Babes thread and see what happens, it is sometimes hilarious.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I think the real question is how did Firaxis even figure out what all those Babylonian and Sumerian phrases were. Unless they're using another language, just as the Egyptians speak Egyptian Arabic.

I'm guessing they contacted some specialists/academics. In Civ5 for instance I believe Attila the Hun speaks Ossetian (or something) based on some linguist who specializes in it.

 

[Takhisis]

New question: Does anyone know what the word is in English for that style of (horse-)riding used by women? Y'know, the one where they keep both legs on one side of the horse instead of sitting astride it?

 

[timtofly]

Read the Babes thread and see what happens, it is sometimes hilarious.

The current page is offering me a free spell checker and a dictionary.


sidesaddle?

 

[bhsup]

It's called side saddle, Tak. And just to make you happy, I am not going to post that song...

 

[Takhisis]

Yes! Sidesaddle! I've been forced to think in so many different languages today that my mind is now a mash-up of different vocabularies.

x-post edit: as a peace offering, Mr. Missourian, I think you should listen to Samantha Fox's 'touch me'. *nods wisely*
Also, man, you were ninja'd by NINE minutes.

 

[timtofly]

It's called side saddle, Tak. And just to make you happy, I am not going to post that song...

I am too lazy to look up the thread, but James Garner died towards the end of July. Would that be your third?

 

[bhsup]

James then Robin then Lauren, yeah that would be it.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Were there any mythological beings bearing the name "Vix", or had a similar name also starting with "V"?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Were there any mythological beings bearing the name "Vix", or had a similar name also starting with "V"?

Do comic books count as mythology? I'm pretty sure there was at least one 'Vixen' somewhere along the line...

 

[Mise]

If I turn off adblock and ghostery, I only get ads for websites that I regularly visit and have to turn off adblock or ghostery on (because otherwise it breaks certain features). So I get ads for my bank and ISP, for example.

 

[Hygro]

Can a good voice (range and other factors) be acquired through training?

A good voice teacher can unleash range you never thought you could ever have on the first lesson.