Why "bibi" and "wormy" would be an indication that he is German? I mean, I know Ocean is German, but why this words specifically would indicate that?
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Taken from this post-
https://f95zone.to/threads/summers-gone-ch-4-5-full-oceanlab.29981/post-9496176
Wormy could end up as somebody's nickname in English, sure (like Pauly Shore being the Weasel), but 'bibi'? No. We tend to stick with the more common 'baby'.
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Not to forget "Bellchen". That't pretty much 99% German or another Germanic language. (Swiss, Austrian, probably Dutch...)
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Or in these times: my habibi.
And other arabic words/phrases seeping in the german language.
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For now there aren't evidences about this can happen, so i'm quite. I don´t think SG will be abandoned, things are going good. All games have the risk of been abandoned but Ocean seems to have his ideas very tied.
Pretty much all West Germanic languages except English have this type of nickname with a variant of "-chen", in the North Germanic languages this is also an option, but they typically use a different diminutive for it.
As for Bellchen in specific, if used in dialect speech with a forced Ablaut, it could also become "little ball" in meaning as another nickname.
Bibi, both as a nickname itself and as a short for several girl names, e.g. Bibiana, predates any arabic stuff in German by centuries.
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Oh, know I understand! "Bibi" also sound like the equivalent of "baby" around here if you pronounce it in a certain way, maybe that's why it didn't stick out to me.
Yeah. I don't think this will get abandoned if not for something colossal happening. As I see, regardless if next updates will come quickly due to being original content only, playing and waiting for SG is more like a commitment of years.
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Isn't it phonetic, both "bi"'s as the "bi" in "bimbo"?
Simple, Bibi!
But joking aside, here is one difference of German and English spelling at work, in English "Bibi" would be spelled "Beebee", like the "bi" in "bizarre", since for some reason English "e" is spelled like the German "i".And German is normally spelled as written, there are few diphtongs or stuff you have to know (like "v" is "f" in all Germanic and very old loanwords, "v" is "w" in newer loanwords) and there are no silent end letters in German, so words/names like Porsche are spelled with a Schwa, a lowered, halfswallowed e, never silent. so Porsche would be something like "Porscha", with the "a" like in "a fish" in English, since English does not have this type of Schwa.
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I mean you need to make 2 games at the same time, both have a lot of characters, both have nice graphic and etc, imo its too much for 1 person
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Yes, of course, it´s a very hard work for only one person, but how i said Ocean seems to be very disciplined about how to make things and his ideas are clear. Always is better have a team for this type of projects but he is doing well. I still think there´s no reason to worry about the future of the games (at least for now, life can change things with a snap)
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d "You're the bibi!"
"(Bibi is pronounced 'Bee Bee' and refers to something baby-like.)"
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English is pretty simple in comparation. I love how German has few words connected in one word. Grammar is much more complex then English. Speak is different everywhere. But England has it too; Scottish accent vs Ireland or Texan vs New York. Grammar tenses are more complex too. Nouns are written with capital letters.Simple, Bibi!
And German is normally spelled as written, there are few diphtongs or stuff you have to know (like "v" is "f" in all Germanic and very old loanwords, "v" is "w" in newer loanwords) and there are no silent end letters in German, so words/names like Porsche are spelled with a Schwa, a lowered, halfswallowed e, never silent.
But deep down they are similar too... Both are related.
Let's not flog that dead horse yet again. Your opinion is rather irrelevant in this matter. Only Ocean's personal opinion counts, and his publicly stated opinion is that working on 2 games at the same time is better for him mentally.
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Because for some reason the angles adopted the latin alphabet, then said "what if we switch all the vocals? for the lulz".
German uses the same vocals of latin and all latin alphabet languages.
English "e" is latin "i", "a" is latin "e", "i" is latin "a".
In my experience, English has it´s own pitfalls and is not that much simpler. I think this is a learning curve thing, why the two languages are seen as such. The learning curve for German at the beginning is really high (for a non-native speaker), but once it clicks German becomes mega-easy, since it is a toolbox for building. The currently longest correct sentence in German clocks in at 1077 words, not something you see in everyday use, but what is possible.
English starts with a rather low learning curve, you can become halfway decent rather quick, but if you go deeper into English the learning curve ratchets up very quickly and some rules are rather strange. Even some beginner stuff is not that easy as it might seem to a native speaker. For instance, "I eat" and "I am eating" is something e.g. German does not distinguish at all. While we can state an equivalent of "I am eating", this is done very rarely and is considered overspecific.
Where most of the differences between German and English come from is the deep structure, which is decidedly different today. Both languages descended from a mother tongue of the SOV "verb final" type. English developed to a strict SVO type over time, German is of the very rare V2/OV type. In German the finite verb comes in second sentence position, all other verbs come at the end.
So while the easy sentences "I eat bread/Ich esse Brot" look identical, they are not when it comes to underlying grammatical structure. In English you HAVE TO begin a sentence with the subject, in German literally anything can stand at the beginning the sentence and often does. Even this small sentence "Ich esse Brot" could be changed into "Brot esse ich" without any loss of meaning and being completely valid.
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This is from WiAB devlog. Look at these earrings, do they look familiar?
