Experimental RTS/Space sim Collaborative Coding Project.
The goal is to design a game with structure/settings/balance of Starcraft and scale of Eve Online(i.e. huge space battles, space empires,etc).
Though this wouldn't stop anyone from contributing code/feedback/criticism, i'll be coordinating the project.
All code/ideas should be posted in this and subsequent threads which i'll start as needed.
step #1: We will collaboratively create a name for our project.
Each suggestion must explain why this name fits the project and why its better then any other generic name.
Some linguists make a distinction between slangisms (slang words) and colloquialisms. According to Ghil'ad Zuckermann, "slang refers to informal (and often transient) lexical items used by a specific social group, for instance teenagers, soldiers, prisoners and thieves. Slang is not the same as colloquial (speech), which is informal, relaxed speech used on occasion by any speaker; this might include contractions such as 'you’re,' as well as colloquialisms. A colloquialism is a lexical item used in informal speech; whilst the broadest sense of the term ‘colloquialism’ might include slangism, its narrow sense does not. Slangisms are often used in colloquial speech but not all colloquialisms are slangisms. One method of distinguishing between a slangism and a colloquialism is to ask whether most native speakers know the word (and use it); if they do, it is a colloquialism. However, the problem is that this is not a discrete, quantized system but a continuum. Although the majority of slangisms are ephemeral and often supplanted by new ones, some gain non-slang colloquial status (e.g. English silly – cf. German selig ‘blessed’, Middle High German sælde ‘bliss, luck’ and Zelda, a Jewish female first name) and even formal status (e.g. English mob)."[5]
>>845
I don't get your point. That pages makes a reference to jargon. I think that applies more correctly to professional usage of latin in today's society as opposed to describing such usage as slang.
>>846 Usage of Latin in medicine is like animu fans usage of Japanese.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 11:48
I think you people are confusing slang with jargon.
And no, a doctor couldn't go back in time to Imperial Rome and communicate (mainly because they don't actually speak Latin, they just use phrases to name things) any more than an Englishman could travel back in time a thousand years and make himself understood.
Also, a dead tongue is one that has no more native speakers, not one that has no more speakers at all.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 11:53
>>848
But the Bible was written in English??? 20000 thousand years ago?????
>>848 Could they just use normal standard English and not Latin?
I bet the reaction would be the same if you asked /a/ to use cute instead of kawaii
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>>850
If medical professionals used English, it would sound like they were speaking Newspeak. That's doubleplusungood if all you care about is curing your throatswell.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 12:24
>>853
Uh, no. Medical terms aren't confusing because they're Latinish; they're confusing because you're not a doctor.
>>854 Being "not a doctor" isn't an excuse to use cryptic slang.
Isn't the purpose of doctors,lawyers,scientist to be understood by common people or not?
Why would you think people need to invent secretive subcultures of "professionals" who segregate into "doctors" and "non-doctors" ?
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Anonymous2009-07-26 12:41
>>847 Usage of Latin in medicine is like animu fans usage of Japanese.
It's called anime, dad.
>>857
Hmmm... I hadn't pegged you for a tinfoil, Fro.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 13:20
>>857
I know you don't have sufficient expertise in anything to understand the state of being an expert (witness your abuses of computer science), but doctors are experts who have devoted many years of study to medicine. And you think the reason you don't understand them is because they don't use familiar word roots? What's your next project, some sort of universal character and philosophical language the definition of every word in which will be evident from its construction?
import random
matrices = 700
militaryunits = 3
productionunits = 2
print'Velox et Astrum\nV 0.201\n'
print'Okay. So you have',militaryunits,'military units,',productionunits,'production units, and',matrices,'elemental matrices.\nWhat do you do?'
done = 0
while not done:
c = raw_input('[A]ttack, [M]ove, [Q]uarry, [T]rain, view [S]tatistics, or [B]uild\n?').lower()
if c=='a':
print'PEW PEW PEW'
elif c=='m':
print'you travel many days and nights'
if random.randrange(5)==4:
print'AMBUSH OH SHIT'
c = raw_input('[R]un or [G]un!?!?\n?')
if c=='r':
print'you didn\'t get away fast enough'
elif c=='g':
print'you don\'t have a gun'
else:
print'you didn\'t act fast enough'
print'you fucking lose'
done = 1
elif c=='b':
if matrices != 'sufficient elemental matrices':
print'. . . INSUFFICIENT ELEMENTAL MATRICES'
if random.randrange(2)==0:
print'You ignorantly allocated elemental matrices for building. They\'re now gone.'
matrices = 0
elif c=='q':
rmat = random.randint(1234,5678)
matrices = matrices + rmat
print'you\'ve mined',rmat,'elemental matrices from a KLYGZOFTSY-class maxteroid.'
print'you\'ve got',matrices,'elemental matrices.'
elif c=='t':
print'your hamfisted attempts at training local aliens to serve as mercinaries has FAILED!\n'
elif c=='s':
print'#'*25
print'You have',militaryunits,'miliary units.'
print'You have',productionunits,'production units.'
print'You have',matrices,'matrices.'
print'You don\'t have anywhere to build anything!'
print'#'*25
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Anonymous2009-07-26 13:35
>>868
Nope. But it's not like I'm trying or anything. How about you, bro?
>>867 Rabid elitism
This is what cranks actually believe. Fivs, the fact of the matter is that some people study hard and become experts on a subject. You are an expert on nothing, and assume that your grab bag of mistaken assumptions and misunderstood facts is equivalent to being one. Nope. You may actually be less of an expert than Xah Lee.