Elfen High 2 (OOC 7, Closed, Humans Not Allowed)

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Why would you do that to the poor man, making him speak your butchered English?

Here's the thing - British English only pretends to be the real English. The fancy-pants assholes, their English is just as "impure" as ours.

They just went around and kicked a bunch of brown people's asses until they nodded along with their Johnsonian tyranny.

So, you see, Oliver does not speak American English because he lives in America. He speaks American English because freedom.

You know, I've constantly had to use American-isms in my writing, even while playing Brits, because you lot simply would not get it otherwise.

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Like when I had to clarify this.

I've seen enough Doctor Who to get what you're saying.

I would just point it out constantly to piss you off.

I have a pretty good grasp of American terminology and vocabulary, even if I have a poor grasp of the American accent for more than five or ten minutes at a time.

[Individuality-ness]

"Super Trope of SoCalization, when American media, most of whom is produced in or around Los Angeles, wrongly assumes that aspects of life in L.A. are the same at a national level."

LA = world. True facts. *nod*

I'm amused by this part of the "We All Live in America" page.

One American journalist interviewing a black British Olympic athlete repeatedly asked how being "African-American" affected his outlook on his situation, despite his repeated (and, to the reporter, baffling) insistence that he's not American.

and

During the US healthcare debate, it was claimed that Stephen Hawking would not be alive under the UK's "socialist" healthcare system. This was slightly spoilt when Hawking pointed out that he was English and had spent most of his life in the UK, and the NHS was in fact responsible for him still being alive.

We're just really, really, really proud of our country. We love it so much we think that everyone else does too, and we assume that everyone was one of us, because who isn't?

[Nationstatelandsville]

Here's the thing - British English only pretends to be the real English. The fancy-pants assholes, their English is just as "impure" as ours.

They just went around and kicked a bunch of brown people's asses until they nodded along with their Johnsonian tyranny.

So, you see, Oliver does not speak American English because he lives in America. He speaks American English because freedom.


I've seen enough Doctor Who to get what you're saying.

I would just point it out constantly to piss you off.

I have a pretty good grasp of American terminology and vocabulary, even if I have a poor grasp of the American accent for more than five or ten minutes at a time.

People have asked if I'm British before.

Bear in mind - I speak exactly as I write. My voice is high and nasal, and my accent is nondescriptly Northeast American.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Why would you do that to the poor man, making him speak your butchered English?

Here's the thing - British English only pretends to be the real English. The fancy-pants assholes, their English is just as "impure" as ours.

They just went around and kicked a bunch of brown people's asses until they nodded along with their Johnsonian tyranny.

So, you see, Oliver does not speak American English because he lives in America. He speaks American English because freedom.

You know, I've constantly had to use American-isms in my writing, even while playing Brits, because you lot simply would not get it otherwise.

viewtopic.php?p=15338795#p15338795

Like when I had to clarify this.

I've seen enough Doctor Who to get what you're saying.

I would just point it out constantly to piss you off.

Also, trust me- I can go very British if I want to.

But because I've been around and about, my vocabulary has landed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and borrows both whilst staying understandable to everyone.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Here's the thing - British English only pretends to be the real English. The fancy-pants assholes, their English is just as "impure" as ours.

They just went around and kicked a bunch of brown people's asses until they nodded along with their Johnsonian tyranny.

So, you see, Oliver does not speak American English because he lives in America. He speaks American English because freedom.


I've seen enough Doctor Who to get what you're saying.

I would just point it out constantly to piss you off.

Also, trust me- I can go very British if I want to.

But because I've been around and about, my vocabulary has landed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and borrows both whilst staying understandable to everyone.

For your sake, I try not to imagine your actual accent.

In large part because I have no goddamn idea what Marathi sounds like.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I noted something that had permanently changed in my vocabulary the other day when Erin mentioned it- I don't say "maths" anymore. I say "math". That's something very American in my vocabulary now.

[Nationstatelandsville]

I noted something that had permanently changed in my vocabulary the other day when Erin mentioned it- I don't say "maths" anymore. I say "math". That's something very American in my vocabulary now.

That's because "maths" is wrong.

Just fucking wrong.

[Individuality-ness]

I noted something that had permanently changed in my vocabulary the other day when Erin mentioned it- I don't say "maths" anymore. I say "math". That's something very American in my vocabulary now.

When has the topic of maths come up here?

Wait. Don't answer that.

[Nationstatelandsville]

I'll give the Brits this - "bloody" is just a fantastic curse, and I wish I could use it more often.

I've exhausted "fuck", you see.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Also, trust me- I can go very British if I want to.

But because I've been around and about, my vocabulary has landed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and borrows both whilst staying understandable to everyone.

For your sake, I try not to imagine your actual accent.

In large part because I have no goddamn idea what Marathi sounds like.

I learned English in a Catholic school stacked by Brits, Yanks and Aussies. However, the dialect they taught was very proper and posh RP.

It was to the point that when I actually went to Britain, everyone gave me dirty looks because I sounded like a pretentious prick.

Well, they weren't wrong...

I could also hardly understand many of them myself because the accents were just so different.

[Nationstatelandsville]

For your sake, I try not to imagine your actual accent.

In large part because I have no goddamn idea what Marathi sounds like.

I learned English in a Catholic school stacked by Brits, Yanks and Aussies. However, the dialect they taught was very proper and posh RP.

It was to the point that when I actually went to Britain, everyone gave me dirty looks because I sounded like a pretentious prick.

Well, they weren't wrong...

I could also hardly understand many of them myself because the accents were just so different.

From what I've gathered, the UK has looked any form of uniformity - linguistic, cultural, or governmental - in the eye, laughed in its face, and lit its car on fire.

[Nationstatelandsville]

That NSG thread on the Aztecs greatly amuses me, title alone.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I learned English in a Catholic school stacked by Brits, Yanks and Aussies. However, the dialect they taught was very proper and posh RP.

It was to the point that when I actually went to Britain, everyone gave me dirty looks because I sounded like a pretentious prick.

Well, they weren't wrong...

I could also hardly understand many of them myself because the accents were just so different.

From what I've gathered, the UK has looked any form of uniformity - linguistic, cultural, or governmental - in the eye, laughed in its face, and lit its car on fire.

Your country is much better about that, believe it or not.

[Nationstatelandsville]

From what I've gathered, the UK has looked any form of uniformity - linguistic, cultural, or governmental - in the eye, laughed in its face, and lit its car on fire.

Your country is much better about that, believe it or not.

I knew that already.

As I've said before - everybody in the United States considers themselves American, with some exception for idiots. This isn't really true in the rest of the world.

[Individuality-ness]

For Night - rough draft of Korea.

Name: Korea
Leader: Woo Jean Lee
Flag:

Composed of: present day North and South Korea
Language(s): Official language is Korean, many of them do speak English
Description:

“Korea?” you ask. “As in a singular nation, as in a unified Korea? But I thought that post-Korea War, the Korean peninsula was split into a North and a South Korea. Don’t the two countries freaking hate each other?”

And yes. You’d be right… all the way up to around 2026, when the two countries finally decided “you know what, screw this, being two separate countries is stupid, and life sucks for half of us, so let’s just become a unified country again”.

Rumors are abound with the story that a brown man, who called himself Khan, a woman, and a young man were seen outside the two leaders’ residences wearing nothing but a pair of shorts about a day prior to the countries coming together for peace talks that finally succeeded in coming together with a peace treaty.

Also, something about mechas. But again, unsubstantiated rumors.

Anyways…

The two countries came together in 2026, came up with a peace treaty that was ratified by both countries, and boom! The Koreas were not in a perpetual state of war anymore!

Of course, the terms of the peace treaty took down the DMZ, and it pretty much unified the countries together into one, to under what was formerly the South Korean government. This reunification of the two countries was to the joy of thousands of Koreans whose families have been separated by the DMZ for decades.

At the moment, North Korea’s going through a rapid revitalization, similar to what happened to East Berlin when the Berlin Wall finally came down back in 1989. Of course, it’s only been, what, about four years now?

Life has been improving in the former North Korea. People aren’t starving, they’re being overloaded with too much information after years of having too little of it, they’re quickly getting addicted to the Internet, they’re playing with electricity (light on, light off is a rather popular game with children right now), and they’re happier.

The former North Koreans do still involuntarily sprout out their praises to the former North Korean leader at least once a week or so. They’re still working on that.

In the former South Korea though? Everything is the same as it has always been, except now they have a larger market to sell their K-pop to. So much fucking K-pop now. Damn it.

Characters from here: n/a
Changes since magic was revealed:

North Korea, being the piece of shit it was, blocked information about magic and magitech for decades. When it was finally revealed when the two Koreas finally became one again, the North Korean people went nuts. Something about “oooh, pretty” and “oh my gods, I can’t believe this is magic” or something like that.

I mean, North Korea’s government knew about magitech. They used it to make sure that the North Koreans didn’t escape through the DMZ, for one thing. But they would have never told their people about it.

South Korea though… well, they too went apeshit, but in a totally different direction. As in “so fucking addicted to computers that they eventually had to come up with a medical condition for it complete with surgical treatments”.

And not in the good way either. South Koreans began to experiment with implanting magitech into their own bodies, sort of like mods but for human bodies, with varying rates of success. And they’ve improved on it since.

So now many South Koreans are walking Wi-fi hot spots, complete with an eye implant that served as a computer and hand controls so that they could play games even while running errands.

And oh yeah, ear implants so that they could listen to music all day long.

So basically, they’re walking iPhones.

South Koreans. *rolls eyes*

I get the feeling that Japan’s much worse.

Anyways, these treatments aren’t popular in former North Korea (yet), since a large amount of people find them weird. But the youth are experimenting with it a little, because hey, why not? After living for decades under a totalitarian government, honestly, I can’t blame them for wanting to try out new things.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

For Night - rough draft of Korea.

Name: Korea
Leader: Psy
Flag:

(Image)

Composed of: present day North and South Korea
Language(s): Official language is Korean, many of them do speak English
Description:

“Korea?” you ask. “As in a singular nation, as in a unified Korea? But I thought that post-Korea War, the Korean peninsula was split into a North and a South Korea. Don’t the two countries freaking hate each other?”

And yes. You’d be right… all the way up to around 2026, when the two countries finally decided “you know what, screw this, being two separate countries is stupid, and life sucks for half of us, so let’s just become a unified country again”.

Rumors are abound with the story that a brown man, who called himself Khan, a woman, and a young man were seen outside the two leaders’ residences wearing nothing but a pair of shorts about a day prior to the countries coming together for peace talks that finally succeeded in coming together with a peace treaty.

Also, something about mechas. But again, unsubstantiated rumors.

Anyways…

The two countries came together in 2026, came up with a peace treaty that was ratified by both countries, and boom! The Koreas were not in a perpetual state of war anymore!

Of course, the terms of the peace treaty took down the DMZ, and it pretty much unified the countries together into one, to under what was formerly the South Korean government. This reunification of the two countries was to the joy of thousands of Koreans whose families have been separated by the DMZ for decades.

At the moment, North Korea’s going through a rapid revitalization, similar to what happened to East Berlin when the Berlin Wall finally came down back in 1989. Of course, it’s only been, what, about four years now?

Life has been improving in the former North Korea. People aren’t starving, they’re being overloaded with too much information after years of having too little of it, they’re quickly getting addicted to the Internet, they’re playing with electricity (light on, light off is a rather popular game with children right now), and they’re happier.

The former North Koreans do still involuntarily sprout out their praises to the former North Korean leader at least once a week or so. They’re still working on that.

In the former South Korea though? Everything is the same as it has always been, except now they have a larger market to sell their K-pop to. So much fucking K-pop now. Damn it.

Characters from here: n/a
Changes since magic was revealed:

North Korea, being the piece of shit it was, blocked information about magic and magitech for decades. When it was finally revealed when the two Koreas finally became one again, the North Korean people went nuts. Something about “oooh, pretty” and “oh my gods, I can’t believe this is magic” or something like that.

I mean, North Korea’s government knew about magitech. They used it to make sure that the North Koreans didn’t escape through the DMZ, for one thing. But they would have never told their people about it.

South Korea though… well, they too went apeshit, but in a totally different direction. As in “so fucking addicted to computers that they eventually had to come up with a medical condition for it complete with surgical treatments”.

And not in the good way either. South Koreans began to experiment with implanting magitech into their own bodies, sort of like mods but for human bodies, with varying rates of success. And they’ve improved on it since.

So now many South Koreans are walking Wi-fi hot spots, complete with an eye implant that served as a computer and hand controls so that they could play games even while running errands.

And oh yeah, ear implants so that they could listen to music all day long.

So basically, they’re walking iPhones.

South Koreans. *rolls eyes*

I get the feeling that Japan’s much worse.

Anyways, these treatments aren’t popular in former North Korea (yet), since a large amount of people find them weird. But the youth are experimenting with it a little, because hey, why not? After living for decades under a totalitarian government, honestly, I can’t blame them for wanting to try out new things.

This made me laugh.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I'm debating whether we should try to spend more time in Britain itself, what say you guys?

We'll have to do Syria, because I did promise Indi, but it might be a nice change of pace to just visit a quiet English or Scottish town.

[Individuality-ness]

This made me laugh.

*bows* I try. Hopefully you enjoyed Khan-family-mecha forcing the Koreas to finally get their fucking shit together.

[Nude East Ireland]

I don't like currency.

I'd gladly trade some of my junk for things at the store.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I don't like currency.

I'd gladly trade some of my junk for things at the store.

Trust me when I say that's overrated.

And I'm at a country where that's regularly done.

[Nude East Ireland]

I don't like currency.

I'd gladly trade some of my junk for things at the store.

Trust me when I say that's overrated.

And I'm at a country where that's regularly done.

I'd be down for giving you my boots in exchange for some bread and a hooker.

I mean, seriously, ten dollars for a notebook? It's outrageous.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Trust me when I say that's overrated.

And I'm at a country where that's regularly done.

I'd be down for giving you my boots in exchange for some bread and a hooker.

I mean, seriously, ten dollars for a notebook? It's outrageous.

It's capitalism at work. Respect the process.

[Nude East Ireland]

I'd be down for giving you my boots in exchange for some bread and a hooker.

I mean, seriously, ten dollars for a notebook? It's outrageous.

It's capitalism at work. Respect the process.

Or I can move out to Wyoming, build myself a nice farm, and raise goats for a living.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

We have areas of improvement.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

It's capitalism at work. Respect the process.

Or I can move out to Wyoming, build myself a nice farm, and raise goats for a living.

That's also part of the capitalist system. *nod*