(October 14th, 2017, 09:38)Wyatan Wrote: Thanks for the game, Sullla.
About the pronunciation of Joaõ, I'm not a Portuguese speaker, but if my 20ish year-old memories of a university lecture serve, the "õ" is just a nasal vowel indicator, much as the French use "n" for "an", "on", "un", in".
By the way, notice that the same name in other languages does have an "n" instead: "Juan", "Jean", "John".
Nasal vowels production is usually quite a bit of an issue for English speakers, but your pronunciation of "Lyons" and "Orléans" was spot-on, so you should manage.
Great game! I am just glad I did not have Victoria down for first place when she decided to abandon the spaceship with ~2 techs to go and switch to full culture mode...)
A friend of mine, whose name is João, lives in London, and he doesn't mind at all J being pronounced as it would normally be per English rules. So I don't think it's that important
Nice game. Horrible pack of losers in this season's playoffs, ain't they?
Before Victoria's rather spectacular suicide I noticed her "excellent diplomacy" was less due to anything she was doing (beyond maaaaybe AP keeping Washington alive). Mostly, what saved her was Monty being Monty; peace weight doesn't matter if you have that live grenade hurtling every which way.
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I'm glad that you guys enjoyed that last game. For those who understandably didn't have the chance to watch the (lengthy) recording, here's the writeup for the Wildcard Game. The next game is coming up on this Friday at 11:00 am EST, one hour earlier than normal. Good luck with your predictions!
Wow, there are some firm predictions for how the early part of the first playoff's going to go...
Will the game prove us (or at least half us - I certainly voted with the majority at time of writing) wrong? The wildcard game shows just how ridiculously things can go awry.
Thanks again for running this Sullla; I doubt I'll be able to catch this live, but am enjoying catching up later, although I hope the coming games are a little shorter! And thanks to everyone for putting post-game comments in spoilers.
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(October 14th, 2017, 09:38)Wyatan Wrote: Thanks for the game, Sullla.
About the pronunciation of Joaõ, I'm not a Portuguese speaker, but if my 20ish year-old memories of a university lecture serve, the "õ" is just a nasal vowel indicator, much as the French use "n" for "an", "on", "un", in".
By the way, notice that the same name in other languages does have an "n" instead: "Juan", "Jean", "John".
Nasal vowels production is usually quite a bit of an issue for English speakers, but your pronunciation of "Lyons" and "Orléans" was spot-on, so you should manage.
Great game! I am just glad I did not have Victoria down for first place when she decided to abandon the spaceship with ~2 techs to go and switch to full culture mode...)
The video posted has the "right" pronunciation for João in Portuguese from Portugal. I much prefer the pronunciation in Brazilian Portuguese, though, which is not so open and nasally and has a softer "j" sound (I think Brazilian Portuguese sounds way better than Portugal's, as a whole).
"Joaõ is "Jo-AN" as in Orlé-AN-s" is almost correct, but notice how the guy in the video "closes" the nasal sound with what is similar to a "um"/"hm" sound (sorry, I'm not good with using the symbols for sounds). The ~ sign is used for the nasal sound in portuguese, as mentioned, but since there's an "o" letter after that (João), you still have to pronounce it, which becomes similar to the "closing um" I refered to.
But don't worry, João is such a common name in Portuguese that you always end up calling the Joãos something else, be it a nickname or surname.
Oh man, I was saving this picture for the Wild Card game and forgot to used it! Would have been perfect for Vicky's throw.
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The preview for Playoff Game One has now been updated to include community predictions. We only have about 50 entries at the moment; there may have been a bit of a hangover from the marathon Wildcard Game last week. In any case though, you have about 36 hours from the time of this post to enter your prediction for the first playoff match. This week's game will also start an hour early, at 11:00 am on Friday October 20th. I hope some of you can make it - thanks!
My hangover is from the fact it's pretty much impossible to predict, as we so aptly demonstrated last game (and just about every game this season.)
I'm just rooting for my favorite AIs at this point, and enjoying the games.
And on the note of favorite leaders, as bad as the AI is at war, it's odd how the high peace weight builder civs seem to consistently be rolled over. Every peaceful civ seems to manage to get dogpiled by about 13 warmongers.
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I am just glad I did not have Victoria down for first place when she decided to abandon the spaceship with ~2 techs to go and switch to full culture mode...)
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