Should D&D be more American?

[Victim]

HAH!!! Try it in quantum mechanics. I for one love the simplicity of the metric system. I'd like to see how long it takes you to try and convert the weight of an atom over to the imperial system. I shudder at the brain fart.

My physics classes didn't even bothering with Imperial units. Only in my engineering classes do I have to put with them.

And whoever decided that using pounds for both mass and force was a real genius.

 

[Prince Atom]

Actually, the European printing press was created by a German living in Strasbourg -- which is a French city right now. It might be German again any minute, though

We can argue and bicker about 'oo killed 'oo, but when it boils down to it we're all Cro Magnon at the heart.

I have found through personal experience that by comparing similar languages (say, all the romance languages) I can find my way around in a crude but fundamental fashion. Frex, I went to visit many of the interesting sites of Italy from France and I was able to at least guess at most of the public signs by looking for words similar in both French and Italian. Not a graceful way of going about, nor probably very accurate, but I got things done (albeit in my blundering, noisy, disrespectful American way ).

Seriously, though, I don't think I offended too many Europeans in Europe. My American classmates are another matter....

TWK
"Listen, bub, all I know is what I read in the papers."
"You read Japanese?"
"Uh huh."
"You didn't tell us that."
"You never asked."

P.S. For those Canadian Marvel fans -- does Wolverine sound Canadian, or just an American trying to sound Canadian?

 

[Prince Atom]

And Another Thing....

Forget the quibble between Sorcerer's Stone and Philosopher's Stone. We've had several people who call it nothing but "The Adventures of that Little Annoying Brit-Punk Devil-Worshipping Leads-Kids-To-Satan Twonk."

But seriously....

IIRC (and I should, I just read the darned thing), over here in the Colonies it's not "HP and the Philosopher's Stone" as a novel, it's "HP and the Sorcerer's Stone."

So, see, we didn't just change the title of the movie, we changed the title of the book too....

TWK

 

[Hardhead]

I like the Imperial system for D&D. The metric system just seems to "modern" for a fantasy game.

 

[Sixchan]

Just my 2 cents but dwarves definitely should talk with a Scottish accent.

Yeah, and so should Elves, Humans, Trolls, Baalors and everyting else. Looks like accents won't be a problem for me from now on!

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I too use Imperial measurements for D&D, but I'd rather have the Metric system in real life any day. Can anyone tell me (without looking in a book) how many cubic inches in a pint?

And all the English people who ever had a hard time in America, you should consider yourself lucky! I've got a thicker Scottish Accent than a Scotty-Groundskeeper Willie hybrid, and any attempts at E-E are met with "What did you say?", and deliberate Glaswegian-English (which I only drop into for laughs, a bit like French people who pretend they don't speak English for fun) is met by a confused stare. Americans might know what 'wanker' means, but what about "yurur a dawlly dobber!"?

 

[coyote6]

As another note - it is most assuradly pop!!! Generally I have found that Soda is pretty much limited to the Mid-Atlantic and New England states and that once you get past Harrisburg, PA everybody calls it Pop.

Hmm. Haven't been to California much, have ya?

 

[GravyFingerz]

California is it's own mystical magical land of language ... we speak Impersial Spanglish, which is a dialect of African Pygmy Cantonese. Here is some of the laboginy (slang) we use in the grosby (hood(neighborhood(living quarters))):

"Dag funkin yo, that turnin wizard to the water bong went hippy like!"
That was a good sandwhich.

"Willis down tha catos to the grass cop and the doob with the fish to my buttocks."
Does this purse make me look fat?

"Cool bela in yo einstein homie trip a car with freaky compton power!"
This music pleases me.

And a phrase everyone should know by heart:

"Cheka ding up a carl wit mans fat twist ans a shake to da rake man!"
Where is the restroom?

 

[tleilaxu]

but the real question is: why should americans CARE how the british pronounce anything? It's been a hundred years since the UK mattered.

 

[tleilaxu]

Ummm - I think that you mean the Dutch dialect Flemish (or Walloon for the French version)

As another note - it is most assuradly pop!!! Generally I have found that Soda is pretty much limited to the Mid-Atlantic and New England states and that once you get past Harrisburg, PA everybody calls it Pop.


Oh and they have to keep the Mile - after all calling Denver the 1.6 kilometer hig city just does not have the same ring......

hey give hong a brake. He's an aww-strayy-lian. he gets top marks for knowing belgium exists

 

[tleilaxu]

Re: What part of michigan I'm from... Petoskey. Uhhh... It's up near Macinaw City, by the bridge... about a half-hour drive south of it, or a 70 minute drive north-ish from Traverse City...

Us seen from space:

http://www.picturemichigan.net/space/petosky.jpg

macinaW??? macinaW>??>>>>>

It's mackinac you heathen!