Under the Video Games folder, it says this: "European Spanish is the defacto Spanish dialect taught in language schools worldwide, even in non Spanish-speaking countries like the U.S., Canada, Brazil and others..."
That's not always the case, at least for Americans. I was primarily taught Latin American terms and grammar (e.g. I know what "vosotros" is, but was never tested on it in high-school Spanish class.) For Brits and other Europeans it might be different, but since the US is closer to Latin America, we primarily teach that dialect.
Edited by ccorb Rock'n'roll never dies!
For games played upon yon table. Player Characters deserve a special mention especially ones playing nonhuman races, elves gnomes and halflings. Only a few players will get it right. The rest wont and you'll get a combination of ye old buchered English and me accent's slipping.
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I've removed GRR Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire.
-"Wroth" as "anger" is attested in http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14568/14568-h/14568-h.htm
, which uses "with great wroth". The editorial 'with no historical precedent' of the deleted entry would appear to be false on face.
-Using 'mislike' instead of 'dislike' would seem to be a really weak basis for invoking this trope.
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I heard that even the King James Version bible was quite "olde englishe" for its own time. Is that true?
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This is true, and the page's current version gives the wrong reason for calling God "thou". At the time of the KJV, the you-vs-thou distinction was formal-vs-informal, but before then it had once been plural-vs-singular, a distinction lost in modern English except in non-standard words like "youse". Hence God is "thou" not out of informality, but out of singularity.
So, in example lists, does this trope go under Y or O?
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I'd put it under Y. Although "ye" was a form of "the", it is now seen as special enough that I wouldn't ignore it for alphabetisation purposes.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
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