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  • #16
    Pekka, j'ai entendu que t'as un vraiment articul.

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    • #17
      What?

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      • #18
        Yes, how can you hear .. if you have no ears?
        In da butt.
        "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
        THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
        "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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        • #19
          didn't that word go out of style in the 80's? Valley girl talk is the name of it I believe.

          I don't speak that way. Of course, I'm not a woman either. What guy talks like that?

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Dis
            didn't that word go out of style in the 80's? Valley girl talk is the name of it I believe.

            I don't speak that way. Of course, I'm not a woman either. What guy talks like that?
            tru dat.

            Now days it all Scott Lehigh is teh gay. OMFGG
            "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

            “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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            • #21
              Miserable old fogey...
              Speaking of Erith:

              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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              • #22
                You rang?
                Long time member @ Apolyton
                Civilization player since the dawn of time

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                • #23
                  So I am like dude, what was that article about.
                  Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Oncle Boris
                    Not necessarily - there was a time when an entire class of citizens had nothing to do outside conversation. But how did conversations really sound in the 19th century? did it go like in the novels? we'll never know, but my bet is that written accounts are always idealized.
                    I'm sure it was stylized, like conversations in the golden age of US cinema.
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #25
                      Yeah, this guy is so, like, miserable.
                      Speaking of Erith:

                      "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                      • #26
                        I like chocolade.
                        I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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                        • #27
                          This thread should just be one post long, proving that the arrival of PH kills all decent conversation stone dead.

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                          • #28
                            That's not fair...Sirotnikov's threads are dead before they even start
                            Speaking of Erith:

                            "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                            • #29
                              Wow, DanS actually had the most intelligent response of anyone in the thread .

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Oncle Boris


                                Not necessarily - there was a time when an entire class of citizens had nothing to do outside conversation. But how did conversations really sound in the 19th century? did it go like in the novels? we'll never know, but my bet is that written accounts are always idealized.
                                What about Mark Twain novels. They seem pretty accurate. As no one use proper English in those novels iirc. They seemed to reflect the general slang at the time. I'm mainly talking about Huck Finn, as it's really the only novel of his I'm familiar with.

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