I talked more about the Kevin Spacey MacTaggart keynote this morning. I may have to go listen to it again. It was remarkable on so many levels and a lot of it spoke to publishing as well as television.
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Your talking about Eve, sparked my interest in trying it. I have previously played MMOs for some years but had not done so lately. Anyhoo I just joined up and am enjoying it, going through the career missions, looking to join a PvE Corp when I finish them. I am in Australia, so our play probably won’t overlap much given the TZs.
While neither of my parents are Scottish, so I do not consider myself a Scot, I was born in Scotland, and I must point out that people telling you that you were “wrong” for saying the UK or Great Britain when it was in Scotland are simply confused.
Scotland is one of three parts (called countries, but they’re not countries in the sense meant anywhere else in the world) that make up the island of Great Britain. Great Britain is a (major portion) of the UK (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
UK : Great Britain : Scotland
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Canada : … eastern Canada?! : Quebec.
While there’s Quebecois who wish they weren’t part of Canada (and the same can be said of some Scots w.r.t. the UK/Britain), Quebec is, in fact, in Canada. If you were to say that Montreal is in Canada, and someone were to tell you “No, you got that wrong. Montreal is in Quebec.”, that would be precisely the same level of incorrectness as people complaining that you said something was in the UK or in GB when it occurred in Scotland.
Thanks for the lecture on set theory but it wasn’t actually required.
On Day 679 at around 8:50 minutes in, Nathan said, “Kevin Spacey was invited to give the keynote address to a convention of TV broadcasters in England at Edinburgh.” I think he subsequently misremembered what he said as UK or Great Britain but he said England and that’s what I called him on. It may seem a little pedantic but Americans often say England/English interchangeably with Britain/British and it grates a little.
BTW, Nathan, Leila rhymes with sailor (linguistic pedants just let that one go).
Yeah .. that was on me. I knew better, but my mouth just wasn’t up to the task.
So it’s not “lay-la” but “lay-lor”???
I’m probably guilty of pronouncing it “lee-la” … that’s the Maine accent coming thru. 🙂
No, “lay-la” is more like it. The English accent I have tends not to pronounce that terminal R in sailor, so I say “say-la”. I gave the example because when I was six, a gang of boys used to shout “Leila, baila (sp?), the silly old sailor” after me as I walked home from school. Seems to have stuck with me.
Ahh! Okay. So much more like my old Downeast accent. Where “deer” – for example – is two syllables – “dee-ah” and sailor would be “sayl-ah.”
Thank you for clarifying 🙂