English is now American?

[CumeriTarenes]

Actually it is not important, but when someone askes for it he/she has the right to get an answer...and everybody has a right to respond to the answer.

I agree, it is not the most important issue NGD should work on. We just try to make regnum better, or the look on regnum from the point of view of a new user.

btw, I saw no flame wars, it is a factual threat until now.

[ArcticWolf]

Originally Posted by CumeriTarenes

Actually it is not important, but when someone askes for it he/she has the right to get an answer...and everybody has a right to respond to the answer.

And it's a nice topic. It's uncommon, we usually don't speak about this on the normal, everyday chatter, so it's a good chance to discuss our points of view.

[superdaveninja]

Originally Posted by cantung

So should Latin have been called Italian just becouse it's similar ?

remove liquor from brain before posting. this argument is erroneous and irrelevant and you will find cannot sustain any valid truth. latin was a language which existed as a spoken language only up until the 14th century, when it phased out of existence as various cultures placed more emphasis on vernacular languages, that is, one that was more focused on their geographical dialects. In terms of the Italian people: for hundreds of years prior to the 14th century, the populous of Italy had gradually come to speak a dialect of Latin in that area, which was formally was established when the literary work "The Divine Comedy", which was of great influence, was written in this dialect of latin. This dialect, known as the Tuscan dialect of Latin, became the standard for Italian speaking and writing. Therefore, the comparison cannot be made between the relationship of UK English and American English to Latin and Italian because although in both one fathered the other, both forms of English are still accepted by their respective nationalities, whereas Latin has ceased to exist as a spoken national language, and as such, one will not find a flag or a game requiring its use in any gaming community of today.

ps. latin was the father of all the romance languages: italian, spanish, french, and romanian; so by the same logic cantung, do you say latin should be called all of these?

[DragoonEnNoir]

Yes, I'm afraid you're correct.

England (which is not a country, but just a part of the UK) is now a wholly owned subsidiary of America Corp.

McDonalds will shortly be coming out with a McFish'n'Chips, and a McRoast Beef and McYorkshire Pudding Happy Meal. The BBC will shortly begin copying it's own sitcoms, though with poorer acting and less humour. People will soon be given classes on how to tip restaurant staff (taught by Bill Bryson I believe), and the Church of England will shortly require belief in God by all its clergy. The government has already been taken over in case you hadn't noticed, and finally... there will shortly be legislation requiring football to be referred to as 'soccer'.

[ArcticWolf]

Originally Posted by DragoonEnNoir

Oh.... Superdaveninja: You forgot Romanian, which is the closest language to classical Latin I believe.

No, I was the one who forgot it :P

[superdaveninja]

did i forget romanian? check the last line buddy... its riiight there dont make me quote it

[DragoonEnNoir]

Sorry Dave... failing eyesight. I corrected my post

[superdaveninja]

no worries of course i gotta shout out to those happy Romanians

[oblegod]

the American language is just english spelt wrong ^^

[xcvbxcvb]

Originally Posted by CumeriTarenes

they seem to use the flags from the countries where there are most users from

[joke]Maybe NGD could add a button that says "Where is my flag?" to the launcher. Whenever someone clicks on it, it blanks out the screen so the politically correct people never have to see anything that may offend their poor, sensitive little eyes.[/joke]