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Trope95

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Is that my new nickname, sagecrow? lol I know it sucks I lost access to my original blkcrow account here. But that's why I put the crow for my avatar.

Yes, cooler is probably the most common term used in the US. But I have heard ice chest and ice box also used.
Oh, shit! I renamed you :D

Should have 1 more digit in the last group: 1 800 123-4567.
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Oh, shit! I saw the 1 800 and the commercial also talked about $75, and didn't count the rest of the numbers. It looks like it's an Aussie thing looking at their webpage now!
 
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Realised/realized and similar words: IIRC (I'm at work right now and don't have access to the files), the only one who uses the British spelling for "realised" is Saira. And it's on purpose because she's Indian. She will also use Mummy (for Mommy, not the Egyptian thing), flavour, and other similar things.
Brilliant! I like the idea. It adds colour.
 

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Ice boxes: That phone number is from the US, right?
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Realised/realized and similar words: IIRC (I'm at work right now and don't have access to the files), the only one who uses the British spelling for "realised" is Saira. And it's on purpose because she's Indian. She will also use Mummy (for Mommy, not the Egyptian thing), flavour, and other similar things.
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Interesting on Lisa and Debbie - makes sense. And I didn't realize that Saira was speaking in a British accent - or that it was only being used for her. I'll have to remember that.

As for TechniIce, it may have an "800" number in the ad, but:
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Not sure.if its across the board for Canada, but here in Ontario we need Quebec and the state of New York to all agree to get rid of DST.

And all 3 cant agree.
I'm pretty sure Quebec will always take the position contrary to everyone else. Even if the other parties eventually agree to come around to their perspective, they'll change their minds. ;)
 

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I'm pretty sure Quebec will always take the position contrary to everyone else. Even if the other parties eventually agree to come around to their perspective, they'll change their minds. ;)
Wasn't there a "meme" circling around years ago (when they were on paper) that "translated" Québec to "Contrarian" or something like that? I remember vaguely a list of Canadian Provinces and what their names "meant"... I have this idea of Ontario being "On the Move", but poor me can't remember the rest... (I remember Ontario because I have a bunch of family there)

This must have been late 80's early 90's, it was something that we got by Fax... (Fuck I'm Old)

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And this type of details, along with the one for Saira, is why I can't hype this game enough.

Peace :)
There's a lot of hidden things in the scenes. Most of them are me thinking "What is X thinking right now, or when she chose her outfit? In which mood is/was she?"
Some of them are later explained in the game (like the pictures in Edmund's apartment in the last call).
Most of them remain hidden because explaining them in dialogue would be tedious for the player and unrealistic for the characters. No one asks why X was in a weird pose in a family picture in real life. But Lisa being Lisa, will talk about it even if no one asks.

Interesting on Lisa and Debbie - makes sense. And I didn't realize that Saira was speaking in a British accent - or that it was only being used for her. I'll have to remember that.

As for TechniIce, it may have an "800" number in the ad, but:
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Saira has had little dialogue where I could use British localisms, I couldn't shoehorn a sentence with any of the known -our (colour, flavour, etc.) endings until 0.15 or 0.16. She also is inconsistent (on purpose on my part) with her accent. She grew up in India, studied the last two years of High School in Scotland, and College in Portland. Her accent will be mostly British, but she will use some American expressions because she's hearing them daily. That way, if I slip and use "guys" instead of "blokes", there's an in-game reason behind it.

Yeah, the TechniIce thing wasn't the reason I used "Ice boxes" in the game. It was the first image that showed up when I looked for "Ice boxes" when I was looking at it to answer you :D
As sagerock820 said, and he's as American as NY-style pizza, he has seen written as "coolers", "ice chests", and "ice boxes", and I should trust my proofreaders, right? ;)
 

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Yeah, the TechniIce thing wasn't the reason I used "Ice boxes" in the game. It was the first image that showed up when I looked for "Ice boxes" when I was looking at it to answer you :D
As sagerock820 said, and he's as American as NY-style pizza, he has seen written as "coolers", "ice chests", and "ice boxes", and I should trust my proofreaders, right? ;)
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Even then, most of those names are very regional. It will probably called one thing in north east part of the US and another name in the south and another name in the midwest.
 

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Yeah, the TechniIce thing wasn't the reason I used "Ice boxes" in the game. It was the first image that showed up when I looked for "Ice boxes" when I was looking at it to answer you :D
As sagerock820 said, and he's as American as NY-style pizza, he has seen written as "coolers", "ice chests", and "ice boxes", and I should trust my proofreaders, right? ;)
Even then, most of those names are very regional. It will probably called one thing in north east part of the US and another name in the south and another name in the midwest.
Exactly. I've visited close to half the states in the US and lived in 5 different ones from one coast to the other. I've heard a lot of different variations of American English. :)
 

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Even then, most of those names are very regional. It will probably called one thing in north east part of the US and another name in the south and another name in the midwest.
You are asking too much from a non-native writer :ROFLMAO:
I have the same problem in Spanish. I use words and expressions that are local to where I live(d), although not many, because they feel natural to me, although a Californian guy speaking in Spanish would mostly sprinkle his speech with "wey", "pendejo", and "chingada" because he would have a Mexican accent because of proximity, even if he is a native English speaker and learned Spanish as a second language.
 
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