alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
I'm told that Californian English is well... odd; any opinions? 
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jeps
Arcadefire
Halachti leBeit Sefer Ivrit, az ani medaber yoter ivrit min idish. I have a bit of yiddish, but not as much as hebrew. and I like my Shabbat WAY more than shabbos, kamatz and patach, not komotz and potoch. Taf, not Sav.
Israelite9191
You should be reading
I'm guessing your Reform? The Reform always seem to like Hebrew more than Yiddish....
mrpwn3r
Stereotypical Asian
I'm told that Californian English is well... odd; any opinions?
If you think that is odd, you should hear Chinglish.
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
If you think that is odd, you should hear Chinglish.
Considering that I am a Chinese-American...
I was however referring to how other English speakers saw Californian English 
mrpwn3r
Stereotypical Asian
Considering that I am a Chinese-American...
I see.
Well, I'll give you my opinions on the other forms of English.
Well considering that my calculus teacher is British, I have discovered this year that British accents bore me and put me to sleep. (No offense to any Brits here.
)Indian accented English is hard for me to understand and I am constantly reminded of this when I call tech support for help.
New England English sounds very familiar to British English, but it doesn't put me to sleep.
Wapanese is very annoying and should be outright banned by Congress.
Texan English....reminds me of George Bush. Enough said.
Anyways, the list above was made in good jest and I mean nothing by it. Please don't take it as an insult.
Well, as a native of California, Californian English sounds unaccented to me, but my guess would be is that our speech is slurred compared to the rest of the English'es and thus, very hard to understand.
Since I can't sleep tonight, I'd like to bring up a topic which just emerged in my NES.
Can someone claim the moon legally and what would "claiming" the moon actually entail?
Can someone claim the moon legally and what would "claiming" the moon actually entail?
JosefStalinator
Я буду снова здесь
I would guess Californian English has a slightly increased tempo, somewhat "slurred" between words. Examples would include "hella", at least in northern California, and other mergers occur that I'm really not aware of, being very stereotypically Californian myself . Definetely very casual though.
@EQ Either the entire world would agree not to militarize the moon and share it (since it really doesn't have any resources... at all, its just pride, but really, really expensive) or would scramble to get their own worthless little bases there. The former would almost always happen... but with your NESes, I could only expect the latter.
. Definetely very casual though.@EQ Either the entire world would agree not to militarize the moon and share it (since it really doesn't have any resources... at all, its just pride, but really, really expensive) or would scramble to get their own worthless little bases there. The former would almost always happen... but with your NESes, I could only expect the latter.
das
Regeneration In Process
Speak or spell? To me it's mainly a matter of spelling, though that's obviously a simplification.
I think it's an universal rule that colonial/peripheral type regions will always be more conservative in such regards than the metropoly, and only progressive inasmuch as necessity might demand it. The Ukraine is kind of like that too, for instance, and I mainly blame the traditionalism of the Cossacks rather than the influence of the Poles for Ukrainean being so hilariously antiquated to the Russian ear.
Anyway, colour just looks better to me. Besides, that was French influence, and it's a French loan-word, so it still is only fair.
Probably comparable with claiming the Antarctic, or claiming northern Greenland. Not sure what that entails either, but I suppose that the Moon would cause more ire than Greenland ever could.
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
International law is what the nations define it as. If the first to the moon says 'right this is ours now', thats fine as long as no one protests
. I'd recommend having your nations (or at least the first world industrial ones) come up with an 'Extra Terrestial claims treaty' with stuff like:"-A nation may claim a region 1000km from a permanently manned base as an Exclusive exconomic zone.
-No one can claim any extraterristial body.
-First come first serve!
-The militarisation of space is illegal etc"
and then that becomes the international law, and legality is defined by it.
Here is the OTL example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty, though its an obvious example of cold war power balance, and a multilaterial solution as in your NES will come up with something different.
The spoken English in Baltimore is closest to...actually, I'm pretty sure that the spoken English in Baltimore is something like what Charles Li speaks in RL.
Can I haz tank corps?@sp1023, I will name an admiral in your honor, as soon as we get some ships! Which may be a few years of game time
I always did like my panzers.Proud owner of zero English accents, outside of sometimes slurring my words when speaking quickly. But who doesn't do that?
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
This isn't French with a formal standard you know, everything is an accent. The best you can do is an unplaceable accent of your own devising
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Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Really? I only lived there for a couple of years and it still creeps into my voice now and then (as does that damnable American accent of my infancy), mainly when I'm suprised for some reason - its just suck a good accent for cursing in
.Well, it's sort of Midwestern American. Definitely not English. Given my avatar, though, it's probably Corellian.This isn't French with a formal standard you know, everything is an accent. The best you can do is an unplaceable accent of your own devising
I'm from aberdeen, if you know what that means with regards to scottish accents. But I have no scottish accent, nothing that anything but a true scot might recognise (I roll my r's etc). Which has lead to me being accused of being: American, Irish, Welsh, English, Australian. I have yet to be accused of being Scottish...
jeps
Arcadefire
actually conservative/masorti, but its just that I was brought up in an english-speaking home, at hebrew school, so yiddish didn't come till later on.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
What are you talking about? The moon has resources to make far space travel cheap. For one there is the possibility of water, and not even bringing up helium-3. America would be unstoppable in the space race if they claimed the moon.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
I think the UN has some sort of statute against any nation claiming the moon in its' entirety, but...well, yeah. It's the UN.
Chandrasekhar
Determined
Watch out, they might issue a resolution. 
