Andy44
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What's an "RP" accent?
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Thunder Chicken
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A.K.A. Standard British Accent.
Andy44
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Ah, okay. I'm not cool enough to get every acronym and abbreviation around the interwebz.
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I've been catching up on episodes of The Expanse. I think I have a new favorite sci fi TV show. I like how the spacecraft use thrust for artificial G and are built with the decks perpendicular to the thrust axis, Star Frontiers style.
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I've been catching up on episodes of The Expanse. I think I have a new favorite sci fi TV show. I like how the spacecraft use thrust for artificial G and are built with the decks perpendicular to the thrust axis, Star Frontiers style.
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Huh? Nobody in this situation switched accents, and Bangalore was not involved. An American with an American accent called a US helpdesk and the call was answered by a British-American who grew up in England and has an accent that is pleasant, intelligible, and, as far as my American ears can tell, is quite decently close to RP. The caller (the guy with the American accent) stated that he could not understand the agent (the guy with the British accent), and insisted on being transferred to someone that "speaks English".
I'm quite certain that if the Queen herself had answered the call, the caller would have given her the "English, Oedipus, do you speak it?" treatment.
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Sorry only second post, hi all.
A few (lot)(1980's) years back, my wife was on a coach (bus?) trip in New England of all places, with our kids. A friendly oldish lady asked where they were from. Wife replied "we're from England - to which elderly party responded "you speak our language very well!".
But then, someone else later pointed at some houses and said "some of these are over two hundred years old", so . . .
A few (lot)(1980's) years back, my wife was on a coach (bus?) trip in New England of all places, with our kids. A friendly oldish lady asked where they were from. Wife replied "we're from England - to which elderly party responded "you speak our language very well!".
But then, someone else later pointed at some houses and said "some of these are over two hundred years old", so . . .
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Put me into one office with some person from Berlin, who is speaking the rather strong dialect there and you can observe how I gradually shift into speaking with Berlin dialect. Its really annoying sometimes, because I need a time to shift back to local dialect then. :lol:
Happens to me also with other German dialects with different incubation times, except Saxon...
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True, but I find that they get a bit sloppy in some scenes with this: in one docking sequence the main propulsion was clearly shut off, but everyone seemed to walk normally.
However, it's by far the show that has done the best job at it in a quite consistent manner.
What's the incubation time for Swabian?
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That kinda reminded me of a situation in 5'th or 6'th grade. The teacher in 'Religion-class' was reprimanding one of the 'tough' kids about not doing his homework. The guy gave this epic comeback: "So what? I bet even you can't recite the twelve commandments!"
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Magnetic boots. Watch when the thrust is cut their boots light up with red lights to indicate the magnets are on.
It's not perfect, but it's a good way to explain away things in a TV show, where the budget for doing lots of free fall scenes isn't there.
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Yep, the bits with the magnetic boots are well done. I don't want to spoil a scene, but, to be specific, in the last episode there is a docking§/boarding sequence where the main engine appears to be off and the crew is still acting like under 1G.
Still, in general they're doing a very good job.
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Still a bit torn about it. They're doing a generally good job at catching the hard-sifi style of the books, but I'm not quite fond how they're making the lighter parts of the book more "dramatic" (specifically, the entirety of scenes involving the crew of the Roci). I get how they want to be Game of thrones in space, and the novels (especially the second one) lend themselves well enough to that, but they still managed to strike a good balance between terrifying, introspective and fun, and the separation is mostly handled by characters and locations, and doesn't really break down until the whole main cast meets (though from there it gets very dark for a few chapters). By pitting the Roci crew against each other at the beginning instead of them already being a band of brothers, they lose a lot of that, in my oppinion.
Also, shoehorning Avasarala into the first novel might turn out great in the long run, but for the moment it introduces too much segregation for my taste.
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Andy44
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Well, I didn't read the books, and that, as I've found, usually leads to me liking the movie/TV show version better.
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Back to Snowpocalypse 2016, It's been snowing here at my house for over 24 hours now. It looked like we were done this morning but then it got heavy again and the wind picked up. I'm looking at about a meter of snow in some spots here, the snow is up to my hips just trying to walk anywhere, and driving is a distant fantasy. My truck is buried under at least 2 feet and the street hasn't been plowed. When they do plow it, it will further bury my vehicle. It's gonna be a rough day tomorrow and probably the next few.
This is the price we paid for having a 70 degF Christmas.
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Back to Snowpocalypse 2016, It's been snowing here at my house for over 24 hours now. It looked like we were done this morning but then it got heavy again and the wind picked up. I'm looking at about a meter of snow in some spots here, the snow is up to my hips just trying to walk anywhere, and driving is a distant fantasy. My truck is buried under at least 2 feet and the street hasn't been plowed. When they do plow it, it will further bury my vehicle. It's gonna be a rough day tomorrow and probably the next few.
This is the price we paid for having a 70 degF Christmas.
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We just started getting this snow this afternoon. 3 to 10 inches expected. Outer Cape Cod is getting up to about 18 inches.
Hopefully this won't be like last year where we seemed to get 18 inches of snow every few days for the whole of February. Had 9 ft of snow last year. :huh:
Hopefully this won't be like last year where we seemed to get 18 inches of snow every few days for the whole of February. Had 9 ft of snow last year. :huh:
MaverickSawyer
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I'd say "load it into train cars and ship it to California", but they're getting a lot of snow this year, too, which is a good thing.
