Should D&D be more American?

[Henry]

Hmmm.... I'll agree with you if you'll agree that since EN World was created by myself, all posts (and spelling, slang, colloquial speech etc.) here should be in English-English, and not American-English. Sounds like a reasonable exchange to me.

'ere now, guv'ner, we'll be 'avin' none o' this malarkey from ye. It's a dead cert i'll be 'avin none of it, so you can jus' bee-ave!

 

[Morrus]

'ere now, guv'ner, we'll be 'avin' none o' this malarkey from ye. It's a dead cert i'll be 'avin none of it, so you can jus' bee-ave!

There wasn't a single item of rhyming slang in there! And I don't think I've ever heard a Londoner say "ye".

 

[Wayside]

ehh.. would there be an England if there were no Rome?.. or Greece, Macedonia, etc.

We should reconstruct proto/indo-european and make that the official language of everything.

 

[Tonguez]

Why? Because the airplane was invented by Americans.

Actually there is very good evidence that the Aeroplane was invented in New Zealand by Richard Pearse

The Wrights however still have the distinction of being the first to achieve controlled flight (Ricard Pearse had a tendency to crash-land)

Also since the Wrights 'Kitty Hawk' was essentially a 'powered Kite' and the Kite was invented in Asia obviously Air traffic Controllers should all be speaking Cantonese...

 

[hong]

here.. let us compromise..

Speak Australian-English.. it is a wonderful combination of both E/E and A/E... Plus we have Koalas.

How can you refute logic like that????

Strewth! Bonzer idea, mate! Throw another crocodile on the barbie!


Hong "or perhaps a pommy cricketer" Ooi

 

[Henry]

There wasn't a single item of rhyming slang in there! And I don't think I've ever heard a Londoner say "ye".

I can't wait to hear YOU try "American Southerner."

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

There wasn't a single item of rhyming slang in there! And I don't think I've ever heard a Londoner say "ye".

Hah! Morrus, you've got me. Rhyming slang it is:

'Allo me old china - wot say we pop round the Jack. I'll stand you a pig and you can rabbit on about your teapots. We can 'ave some loop and tommy and be off before the dickory hits twelve!

Which means: I attack the blue dragon with magic missle.

 

[Darkness]

Hmmm.... I'll agree with you if you'll agree that since EN World was created by myself, all posts (and spelling, slang, colloquial speech etc.) here should be in English-English, and not American-English. Sounds like a reasonable exchange to me.

And I'm still saying that we should set the language filter to automatically convert American spelling to British spelling.

(Of course, myself, I use American spelling, too, so... )

 

[caudor]

Where I'm from, we don't go talk'in in no fancy dialicks. Just good 'ol fashion Texan is all ya'll hear 'round here. Heck, in Texas even them Orcs use big words when they gotta. They like use'in them big words. So nah, we ain't gonna shrink our vocabularry to fit no fancy pancy American English talk. OK, show's over folks. Now ya git along there...git...

 

[Ran]

Hmm.. a point of view a little subjective, isn't it?
there is one thing here...

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Because the airplane was invented by Americans.

Yeah??? Well, except for the fact it was NOT an american who invented it... it was a brazilian, Santos Dummont and he flew for the first time in Paris, France, around the Eiffel Tower... his plane was called 14BIS.