Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I don't get it. "American" mostly means "little or no accent." Which would make us easier to understand worldwide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 It's not saying that American English sounds like gibberish, It's gibberish that sounds like American English to someone who does speak English. Like how vaguely racist people will speak in fake Chinese or Spanish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I see your fake English and rasie you fake Italian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhuOicPFZY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Those little differences in keyboard layout can be a real pain at times. For instance, with the first BF3 patch, DICE botched the language files so that the US English language file was installed instead of the UK English ones. This also translated over to the keyboard layouts so when I went to type @, I was typing " instead - Which would have been fine if @ wasn't needed for admin commands and its position wasn't so ingrained in my mind AND GAMERS WEREN'T SUCH FUCKING BITCHES WHO CAN'T WAIT 5 SECONDS BEFORE ASKING "WHY U NOT KICK CHEATER?!" *Ahem* But yeah. Stupid, pointless keyboard differences. Edited January 16, 2012 by MasterDex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) So if the software affects that, what would happen if I were to say bring a US keyboard to the UK with me and hook it up to one of your machines? Would it work the same as in the US or would the keys be all rearranged? *Edit* - I mean I know obviously the keys wouldn't physically move (I'm not that retarded). But like would shift+2 make a @ or a " ? Edited January 16, 2012 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Ethan you've installed Windows before? I assume you guys have the same discs as us. It basically starts out saying if you want the US or UK english (and many other options like Dvorak, simple Chinese etc etc). You just go change this anytime in the control panel. I can change my keyboard right now to Dvorak, even though it's physically a UK English Qwerty. It'll make typing a pain of course since I won't have a clue what I'm typing. If you took a US keyboard n just plugged it into a UK PC, it'll assume it's a UK keyboard still. And there's many times where the PC stupidly forgets which it's meant to use and you go to email someone at dean"pxod.com n go @oh..well this is going to be fun for five minutes isn't it?@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Ah yeah, we've got that option. It's always defaulted to US though so I've never looked at what the other options were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I have a US keyboard plugged into my UK laptop. I just set the keyboard language to US English and all the symbols match up. It's a bit annoying that the US layout has no provision for £ and € but there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Yeah, on the rare occasion that I need to use one of those I have to go to the character map (or often when I want to use it someone else has just used it so I can just copy and paste). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I have a BF3 Razer Black Widow. I've mapped ™ © ® £ and € to my programmable keys. (It was glorious subversion of a ridiculously expensive piece of gaming kit, as I created the ™ macro it was as if a million PC gamers cried out, and were suddenly silenced.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Haha, that's pretty awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I'm still mourning the loss of the ¢ key. Imagine how much would be saved instead of typing $0.99 or 99 cents but you could type 99¢ and be done with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I'm still mourning the loss of the ¢ key. Imagine how much would be saved instead of typing $0.99 or 99 cents but you could type 99¢ and be done with it! Would there be confusion if you just put '99c'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I was being facetious. You weren't supposed to take it seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) Everyone takes Battra seriously when he starts harping on about how things were in his day. Edited January 17, 2012 by Thursday Next 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) I suspected as much, but he says some ridiculous things so I can't always tell when he's kidding. 'The Boy Who Cried "Get Off My Lawn"' Edited January 17, 2012 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 When I say things in jest, I thought it was quite clear. Oh well ... Guess I gotta use the old emoticon more. I think my Commodore 64 had a cent key. I do know that the @ symbol was saved from the ashcan of history thanks to email. Back on topic, at the moment I'm a little annoyed at how DVDs and Blu-Rays have different regions for the US and the UK. To me, it encourages piracy (although region free DVD viewing is so trivial these days) and yet they carried it over to Blu-Ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I think region locking in general is retarded. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 My daughter loves watching Kipper on Netflix all the time. It's mostly my fault as I put it on a lot because it's the least annoying of her kids shows. They say "ready, steady go" a lot in that show. Is that common in the UK? Here it's always been "ready set go". My daughter trys correcting my wife now when she says "ready set go". Also it's been funny because my wife knows very little about english (UK) so she's confused by other things they say on there and on IT Crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yeah it's Ready, Steady, Go. Even got a cookery show with the phrase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yeah it's Ready, Steady, Go. On your mark, get set, go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 So do you guys have "Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman" jokes? Or is it like "American, Canadian and a Mexican walk into a bar. The barman says "is this some kind of joke?"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Eh, not so much nationalities as much as different demographics. The most common would be, "A priest, a rabbi, and a..." That, or there are some animals involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 yeah, mostly either colleges, "Longhorn, Aggie and Red Raider" or religions than nationalities. We don't see much difference between anyone in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 yeah, mostly either colleges, "Longhorn, Aggie and Red Raider" or religions than nationalities. We don't see much difference between anyone in the UK. If Americans tried to do Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman jokes they would all start "Three Australians walked into a bar..." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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