General Charles Options

[KScott9806]

In his bio he is described earlier in his career as being a "Leftenant". Whilst this is the correct British English pronunciation of the rank, it is still spelled Lieutenant. Leftenant is not an alternative spelling, it is a phonetic spelling based on the pronunciation.

I just thought I'd point that out so it can be remedied.



Cheers,
~K

[MARS]

We are aware that you're not actually supposed to spell it out like that but we threw it in there to mix things up a little bit; throw in a local touch, if you will.

[Pickysaurus]

Its the way it's meant to be said if you're not am illiterate American

[Pepo]

If is ok,why would be needed to be changed?

[Panzer4life]

Its the way it's meant to be said if you're not am illiterate American

Really now Pickysaurus. It is supposed to read "It's the way it was meant to be said if you're an illiterate American." Also, the next update, what will it be, 1.85, 1.9? I ask because i am having issues downloading anything in the figures of 400 mb.

[Mr.Kim]

Only 1.82 and 2.0.

There will no between 1.85 and 1.9.

[XCABAL]

Its the way it's meant to be said if you're not am illiterate American

And he calls us "illiterate"

[Comr4de]

Everyone be friends. No need for this nonsense.

[Claine]

lol^^

[Serialkillerwhal...]

I love being canadian.

We can't make up our minds what kind of english we use.

But still, if there's leftenants, are there rightenants?

This post has been edited by Serialkillerwhale: 29 Apr 2013, 0:31

[TheCeLL]

I love being canadian.

We can't make up our minds what kind of english we use.

But still, if there's leftenants, are there rightenants?

There are too many rights in this world. No, not that kind of rights, like right-handed kinda rights.

Also, fun fact: if you're good with both hands, you're ambidextrious, which is latin for "two right hands", but if you're bad with both hands, you're ambiSINISTER, meaning "two left hands". The world hates lefties

[Pickysaurus]

Damn typo. I meant no offence but US English is pretty simplified compared to English

[Genmotty]

King William of Great Britain is an honorary figurehead of the ECA Armed Forces and he has made clear that only the Kings English is fit to be spoken among the ranks!


Which begs the question, can I get a reminder on what the British Royal family is up to in all this, after-all Prince William was in the RAF...?

[Joe Kidd]

Oh yeah i forgot,

SKW's canadian, Eh?

JK, JK,

The canadian navy saved a lot of american a*ss in WW2

[Nemanja]

Which begs the question, can I get a reminder on what the British Royal family is up to in all this, after-all Prince William was in the RAF...?

Why RL people have to exist in the ROTR timeline ?

[MARS]

It has been stated in Charles' MTG that the Royal Family has been evacuated to Scotland after the the Russians started bombing London and while we never dropped the actual name, it is entirely fair to assume that the king is William (One of the lines of the Vulcan is 'For KING and country'. While we generally avoid including real names in our narrative, we still reserve ourselves the right to do so if we are directly referencing something from our RL present. Plus, monarchies are generally predictable enough to allow that sort of thing. By the time the story is set, William would be in his sixties, an appropriate age for a monarch.

[Serialkillerwhal...]

The canadian navy saved a lot of american a*ss in WW2

You forgot WW1

After WW1, Canadians were essentially a Laxative to the German Army.

This post has been edited by Serialkillerwhale: 30 Apr 2013, 7:17

[GeneralCamo]

Really? Why are we fighting about American and British English? There is no "pure" English: Both of them have evolved from their original Latin in differing ways. In some cases, American english is closer. In other cases, British is closer. The only reason we have a difference anyway was due to the fact that standardized dictionaries came about. Before that, both Englishes were used almost interchangeably.

Now then, what if Scotland was bombed as well? Where would the king go?

And in all of this ECA talk, you have never once mentioned Ireland. What is going on over there?

This post has been edited by Generalcamo: 3 May 2013, 1:44

[TheCeLL]

Really? Why are we fighting about American and British English? There is no "pure" English: Both of them have evolved from their original Latin in differing ways. In some cases, American english is closer. In other cases, British is closer. The only reason we have a difference anyway was due to the fact that standardized dictionaries came about. Before that, both Englishes were used almost interchangeably.

Because everyone loves being racist.

More fun facts because i like fun facts
Lieutenants derive from the french word: Lieu-tenant, meaning something like Place-holder. Lieu means Place, and Tenant means like... tenant or something

[TheCeLL]

Really? Why are we fighting about American and British English? There is no "pure" English: Both of them have evolved from their original Latin in differing ways. In some cases, American english is closer. In other cases, British is closer. The only reason we have a difference anyway was due to the fact that standardized dictionaries came about. Before that, both Englishes were used almost interchangeably.

Because everyone loves being racist.

More fun facts because i like fun facts
Lieutenants derive from the french word: Lieu-tenant, meaning something like Place-holder. Lieu means Place, and Tenant means like... tenant or something

[Alias]

Really? Why are we fighting about American and British English? There is no "pure" English: Both of them have evolved from their original Latin in differing ways. In some cases, American english is closer. In other cases, British is closer. The only reason we have a difference anyway was due to the fact that standardized dictionaries came about. Before that, both Englishes were used almost interchangeably.

Except for the fact that English has no linguistic basis in Latin whatsoever, it may use the Latin alphabet and have some Latin loanwords but it is a Germanic language, not a Romance language.

On top of that, American English is derived from the English brought over by (you guessed it) the English. It was not naturally formed by the confluence of several different languages like Old English was. American English is completely based on English English, it may have some unique developments (such as a reduced influence of French) and loanwords not found in other English dialects but besides that it has definitely not evolved from or into a "different" language, like some of the creole languages that you would find in the Caribbean and South East Asia.

tl;dr: English English is more English than American English

[MARS]

Now then, what if Scotland was bombed as well? Where would the king go?
And in all of this ECA talk, you have never once mentioned Ireland. What is going on over there?

If England is within range of Russian bombers, it seems like a natural choice to move up to Scotland if the King insists on staying in the UK. In addition, the Russians launched a literal invasion at the coast of England which, if it hadn't been repelled, would have been an even more direct threat to London. The possibility of leaving the UK alltogether would have only become important if the Russians had actually managed to secure a foothold and conquer the country. In that event, Canada would have possibly been a safe retreat for the crown, but since the Russians never got that far, the royals staid in Scotland. As for Ireland, it is a member of the ECA but since their military is kind of small by comparison and doesn't have any iconic domestic equipment, there wouldn't be much for them to do during WW3 aside from preparing their own defences and provide whatever help they can. One of the updates did state that the Pope was evacuated to Ireland and for some reason, the ECA Supply Track always struck me as vaguely Irish due to its odd accent, but that might be wrong. In-lore, the ECA's Prime Minister Norman Fitzgerald is also Irish.

[Svea Rike]

What about Iceland then? Iceland is the closest ECA country to North America, shouldn't there be something going on there?

[MARS]

Similar problem to Ireland: Considering the scale of the war, they only have a very bare-bones, strategically negligible military in addition to being quite isolated in the northern Atlantic.
The Russians wouldn't dedicate any manpower to conquering Iceland, but they probably fought to control the sea around it at some point until their navy got crippled by the US intervention.

[__CrUsHeR]

I'm curious how was the situation of Russian naval bases after the war broke out in Europe.

The Baltic Fleet at Kronstadt must have had problems in the Gulf of Finland with the Nordic countries that have a strong naval tradition.

Another interesting thing would be the situation of the Russian naval logistic base in Syria - Tartus - what was his fate? I believe that the GLA should have turned everything into debris already that this region is part of its area of influence.