Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mad_Jack]

I appreciate the correction!

I always have pronounced "Connecticut" as "New York suburbs."

That's only the southwestern corner of the state - the other three corners are pronounced Eastern Upstate NY, Western RI, and Southern Massachussetts...

Whenever I look at something like this, I realize that if English was a programming language, I would be unable to write code in it, in any functional way. I simply do not know the actual rules, or components beyond a casual level.

English is the Calvinball of languages.

 

[trappedslider]

English is the Calvinball of languages.

I'm sure someone will explain or question the science and ruin the joke but:

 

[overgeeked]

I'm sure someone will explain or question the science and ruin the joke but:

Needs more colonialism.

 

[Scribe]

I will not get myself banned before the previews are over.... I will not get myself banned before the previews are over....

 

[MNblockhead]

Kansas vs Arkansas. One of them is mispronounced.

(And I didn’t live for 2 years in Manhattan, Kansaw.)

Houston Street (HOWston) in New York City and the city of Houston (HEWston) in Texas.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Houston Street (HOWston) in New York City and the city of Houston (HEWston) in Texas.

Groton, CT and Croton, NY, only two hours apart.
Grahton vs. Crowton...

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I will not get myself banned before the previews are over.... I will not get myself banned before the previews are over....

Just remember;

• its a game
• you still have a game that does the job and have been for 10 years.
• you dont have to follow a company if you dont like the direction taken.

Dont let such inconsequential things have an negative effect on you!

 

[Ryujin]

Houston Street (HOWston) in New York City and the city of Houston (HEWston) in Texas.

Strachan (Strawn) Avenue in Toronto.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Just remember;

• its a game
• you still have a game that does the job and have been for 10 years.
• you dont have to follow a company if you dont like the direction taken.

Dont let such inconsequential things have an negative effect on you!

Counterpoint: "All these gamers not playing the latest edition of D&D are actively harming the hobby, because unless one company gets all the profits, no gaming company will make enough money to be taken seriously in Corporate America."
-- my paraphrase of an actual talk I heard Ryan Dancey give at GenCon in the early 2000s.

I don't agree with his priorities, but it was an eye-opening moment, not gonna lie.

 

[Staffan]

Counterpoint: "All these gamers not playing the latest edition of D&D are actively harming the hobby, because unless one company gets all the profits, no gaming company will make enough money to be taken seriously in Corporate America."
-- my paraphrase of an actual talk I heard Ryan Dancey give at GenCon in the early 2000s.

I don't agree with his priorities, but it was an eye-opening moment, not gonna lie.

I mean, I don't think he's wrong, but I don't see why one would want to be "taken seriously in Corporate America"? Make enough money to pay your workers well and keep making more products, and that should be enough to make anyone happy.