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by Grenartia » Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:38 am
by Nature-Spirits » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:39 am
Agritum wrote:Nature-Spirits wrote:Well, what I've got so far is this: it's set in the Rione Sanità, a poor area of Naples. I'm planning for most of the characters to be nuns, though there can be a few other characters, and they are well-integrated into the community as both caregivers and authorities. There is, of course, one twist: nuns can produce miracles. It's not really magic in the sense that most RPs employ it, but more like gifts granted by God/saints/angels/whatever mixed in with a bit of Italian witchcraft, and is not used very frequently (simply because that would be an abuse of the miracles, and God would probably stop granting them). I'm also planning for there to be references to Italian folklore, though as of now I'm not completely sure how that element will play into the plot.
I happen to be Neapolitan.
by Rupudska » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:43 am
Nature-Spirits wrote:Agritum wrote:I happen to be Neapolitan.
Actually, I was hoping that you might be able to answer some of the questions that may come up about the setting that I can't find the answers to online (as I continue my research, that is; atm I can't think of any). Luckily, though, I'm able to decipher a lot the info found on Italian Wikipedia (thank god I speak French and the two languages are fairly similar, because the English Wikipedia has almost nothing).
Dafuq. That doesn't look anything like Standard Italian.
Hladgos wrote:Scantly clad women, more like tanks
seem to be blowing up everyones banks
with airstrikes from girls with wings to their knees
which show a bit more than just their panties
by Nature-Spirits » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:48 am
Rupudska wrote:Nature-Spirits wrote:Actually, I was hoping that you might be able to answer some of the questions that may come up about the setting that I can't find the answers to online (as I continue my research, that is; atm I can't think of any). Luckily, though, I'm able to decipher a lot the info found on Italian Wikipedia (thank god I speak French and the two languages are fairly similar, because the English Wikipedia has almost nothing).
Dafuq. That doesn't look anything like Standard Italian.
If you spell out Deep South English (or Scouse) as it's pronounced, it doesn't look anything like Standard English.
by Cylarn » Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:10 pm
Nature-Spirits wrote:Rupudska wrote:
If you spell out Deep South English (or Scouse) as it's pronounced, it doesn't look anything like Standard English.
True that. I admit that I've occasionally had trouble understanding a few Americans (though most I can understand fairly easily), and a couple of those times I wasn't even sure whether they were speaking English at all.
by Hornesia » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:01 pm
Cylarn wrote:Nature-Spirits wrote:True that. I admit that I've occasionally had trouble understanding a few Americans (though most I can understand fairly easily), and a couple of those times I wasn't even sure whether they were speaking English at all.
'Murican (as we call it down South) has some funny dialects. I live in North Carolina, and you can understand folks from every part of the state, except for the mountains. All my friends from the western part of the state pronounce their words much differently; for example, they pronounce "hush" as "hursh," and "right" as "rit." It can be a hassle when you're lost up there, and you have to ask for directions as some old country store.
by Alleniana » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:07 pm
Hornesia wrote:Cylarn wrote:
'Murican (as we call it down South) has some funny dialects. I live in North Carolina, and you can understand folks from every part of the state, except for the mountains. All my friends from the western part of the state pronounce their words much differently; for example, they pronounce "hush" as "hursh," and "right" as "rit." It can be a hassle when you're lost up there, and you have to ask for directions as some old country store.
Pretty much the same down here. North Georgia mountains are completely different accent-wise from the rest of the state. People from Atlanta also doesn't usually have the southern-type accent for some reason as well.
by Lavan Tiri » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:10 pm
Hornesia wrote:Cylarn wrote:
'Murican (as we call it down South) has some funny dialects. I live in North Carolina, and you can understand folks from every part of the state, except for the mountains. All my friends from the western part of the state pronounce their words much differently; for example, they pronounce "hush" as "hursh," and "right" as "rit." It can be a hassle when you're lost up there, and you have to ask for directions as some old country store.
Pretty much the same down here. North Georgia mountains are completely different accent-wise from the rest of the state. People from Atlanta also doesn't usually have the southern-type accent for some reason as well.
by Nature-Spirits » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:41 pm
Alleniana wrote:Hornesia wrote:Pretty much the same down here. North Georgia mountains are completely different accent-wise from the rest of the state. People from Atlanta also doesn't usually have the southern-type accent for some reason as well.
Australian accents are almost completely unaffected by geography, interestingly.
by Gvozdevsk » Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:19 pm
Nature-Spirits wrote:Alleniana wrote:Australian accents are almost completely unaffected by geography, interestingly.
It's a similar situation in Canada; there are regional variants (which, really, is only to be expected considering the size of the country), but unless you've spent a lot of time living in different provinces and learning different variants (as I have) it's hard to tell the difference. Myself, I don't really speak any one variant, because (as I've said) I've moved around a lot, and my mother has too (both in her childhood and in her adult life), so she never taught me any one variant either. Interestingly, aboriginals are fairly easy to distinguish by their accents no matter the region, even though most of them speak English as their first language; but in general their accents aren't very noticeable unless you know what to listen for, so no one has any trouble understanding them.
The Newfies are a special case. No one can understand them.
In French, on the other hand, there's a bit more variation (most notably the differences between Québécois and Acadian, though I'm sure the other francophone groups across the country have distinct variations in their speech; I haven't heard enough of any of those variants to know), but that probably has to do with the fact that for most of their history, those groups have been isolated both from Europe and from each other, so their dialects have been developing independently for centuries. Honestly, I've heard some Canadian francophones whom I've been almost completely unable to understand aside from a few words here and there.
Anyway, we're drifting off topic.
by Grenartia » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:25 am
Hornesia wrote:Cylarn wrote:
'Murican (as we call it down South) has some funny dialects. I live in North Carolina, and you can understand folks from every part of the state, except for the mountains. All my friends from the western part of the state pronounce their words much differently; for example, they pronounce "hush" as "hursh," and "right" as "rit." It can be a hassle when you're lost up there, and you have to ask for directions as some old country store.
Pretty much the same down here. North Georgia mountains are completely different accent-wise from the rest of the state. People from Atlanta also doesn't usually have the southern-type accent for some reason as well.
by Grenartia » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:30 am
by Alleniana » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:53 am
Grenartia wrote:Anywho. An idea I had a few minutes ago.
Basically, an alt-history RP where the Western Hemisphere (the Americas and Pacific Islands east of the International Date Line) of 2010 gets sort of temporally transferred to the world of 1940 (likewise, the Western Hemisphere of 1940 gets temporally transferred to the world of 2010). I'm thinking some sort of alien (who won't show up, but that's the OOC explanation) wormhole drive miscalculation.
by Grenartia » Fri Nov 14, 2014 5:04 am
Alleniana wrote:Grenartia wrote:Anywho. An idea I had a few minutes ago.
Basically, an alt-history RP where the Western Hemisphere (the Americas and Pacific Islands east of the International Date Line) of 2010 gets sort of temporally transferred to the world of 1940 (likewise, the Western Hemisphere of 1940 gets temporally transferred to the world of 2010). I'm thinking some sort of alien (who won't show up, but that's the OOC explanation) wormhole drive miscalculation.
So, we RP in the scenario with the hemisphere transported to 1940 (as opposed to the 1940 western hemisphere in 2010)?
by Nature-Spirits » Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:08 am
Grenartia wrote:Alleniana wrote:So, we RP in the scenario with the hemisphere transported to 1940 (as opposed to the 1940 western hemisphere in 2010)?
Yes. The beauty of the whole thing is that the second arc could deal with the other world's timeline, and there could be a third arc where the two make contact.
by The Empire of Pretantia » Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:10 pm
Grenartia wrote:Anywho. An idea I had a few minutes ago.
Basically, an alt-history RP where the Western Hemisphere (the Americas and Pacific Islands east of the International Date Line) of 2010 gets sort of temporally transferred to the world of 1940 (likewise, the Western Hemisphere of 1940 gets temporally transferred to the world of 2010). I'm thinking some sort of alien (who won't show up, but that's the OOC explanation) wormhole drive miscalculation.
by Grenartia » Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:30 pm
Nature-Spirits wrote:Grenartia wrote:
Yes. The beauty of the whole thing is that the second arc could deal with the other world's timeline, and there could be a third arc where the two make contact.
A very original idea! It would be interesting to see the changes in society that would inevitably occur. I imagine that a lot of telecommunications would be cut off due to the sudden lack of satellites, and heavy militarisation might be necessary due to the military conflicts that would still be present in the Eastern Hemisphere (which would inevitably affect the West).
The Empire of Pretantia wrote:Grenartia wrote:Anywho. An idea I had a few minutes ago.
Basically, an alt-history RP where the Western Hemisphere (the Americas and Pacific Islands east of the International Date Line) of 2010 gets sort of temporally transferred to the world of 1940 (likewise, the Western Hemisphere of 1940 gets temporally transferred to the world of 2010). I'm thinking some sort of alien (who won't show up, but that's the OOC explanation) wormhole drive miscalculation.
Well obviously, WWII in the 2010-goes-back is won with a snap of the fingers and a flick of the wrist. 1940-to-2010, Earth is fucked.
by TheRepublicOfAmbition » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:07 pm
by Nature-Spirits » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:08 pm
TheRepublicOfAmbition wrote:Superhero/supervillain RP. Who wants in?
by Rupudska » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:35 pm
TheRepublicOfAmbition wrote:Superhero/supervillain RP. Who wants in?
Hladgos wrote:Scantly clad women, more like tanks
seem to be blowing up everyones banks
with airstrikes from girls with wings to their knees
which show a bit more than just their panties
by Gvozdevsk » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:39 pm
Grenartia wrote:Anywho. An idea I had a few minutes ago.
Basically, an alt-history RP where the Western Hemisphere (the Americas and Pacific Islands east of the International Date Line) of 2010 gets sort of temporally transferred to the world of 1940 (likewise, the Western Hemisphere of 1940 gets temporally transferred to the world of 2010). I'm thinking some sort of alien (who won't show up, but that's the OOC explanation) wormhole drive miscalculation.
by Rupudska » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:44 pm
Gvozdevsk wrote:Grenartia wrote:Anywho. An idea I had a few minutes ago.
Basically, an alt-history RP where the Western Hemisphere (the Americas and Pacific Islands east of the International Date Line) of 2010 gets sort of temporally transferred to the world of 1940 (likewise, the Western Hemisphere of 1940 gets temporally transferred to the world of 2010). I'm thinking some sort of alien (who won't show up, but that's the OOC explanation) wormhole drive miscalculation.
I'm down for this if I can be a super high speed low drag Delta Force operator wreaking havoc behind Nazi lines.
Hladgos wrote:Scantly clad women, more like tanks
seem to be blowing up everyones banks
with airstrikes from girls with wings to their knees
which show a bit more than just their panties
by The Empire of Pretantia » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:46 pm
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