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OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Re: OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Post by dunham »

JackGreyhat wrote: post #92
rkagerer wrote: post #65

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I liked ICQ (before it was bastardized) a lot better than chat clients that came after. You could control your visibility by person or group. You could actually search your history and carry it with you over the eons. It was lightweight, fairly unobtrusive and ad-free.

And it had a sort of "live chat" function. You could see your conversation partner's keystrokes in real-time, including typos and corrections. This has, as far as I know, never been introduced in other chat clients...

That’s how it worked on dial up BBSs too. But it was one buffer with a convention of entering two newlines when you were done typing.

Re: OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Post by phone8675309 »

aasasd wrote: post #88
phraseologist wrote: post #83

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Development isn't halted, it was just slowed down by all the problems caused by the pandemic.

Strange: you'd think that nerds shut in their rooms is the perfect circumstance for coding.

Strange: you go through most of your life wondering why the nerd stereotype is of someone lacking empathy and then you read this comment and it’s made crystal clear

Re: OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Post by izietto »

silicon2401 wrote: post #108
izietto wrote: post #106

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Thank you for explaining that at my place :) I wasn't even referring to "Western" countries, I mean I come from Italy, which actually is a Western country, and when I read native English speakers I notice many differences that I'll never be able to reproduce

I'm just curious; why did you specifically say western countries, if you didn't mean western countries? Or say people if you didn't mean people?

Because I'm not a good English speaker, I'm sorry about that

Re: OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Post by silicon2401 »

izietto wrote: post #113
silicon2401 wrote: post #108

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I'm just curious; why did you specifically say western countries, if you didn't mean western countries? Or say people if you didn't mean people?

Because I'm not a good English speaker, I'm sorry about that

You're a great English speaker, which is why it was just confusing since you're clearly able to articulate when you _don't_ mean people and countries.

Re: OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Post by izietto »

silicon2401 wrote: post #114
izietto wrote: post #113

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Because I'm not a good English speaker, I'm sorry about that

You're a great English speaker, which is why it was just confusing since you're clearly able to articulate when you _don't_ mean people and countries.

Well, I appreciate that I can write decently :D but it requires me a lot of effort, my English skills are a source of big troubles at interviews with other countries. Sometimes I just get confused translating and I say something for something else

Re: OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Post by silicon2401 »

izietto wrote: post #115
silicon2401 wrote: post #114

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You're a great English speaker, which is why it was just confusing since you're clearly able to articulate when you _don't_ mean people and countries.

Well, I appreciate that I can write decently :D but it requires me a lot of effort, my English skills are a source of big troubles at interviews with other countries. Sometimes I just get confused translating and I say something for something else

In fairness to your point, I guess I technically can't comment on your speaking, but your writing is definitely great. I wouldn't have guessed you're not a native speaker. Do you practice speech often? I'm a language learning fan but not a huge fan of talking in any language, so my speech always lags behind my writing in languages I study.

Re: OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

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Post by izietto »

silicon2401 wrote: post #116
izietto wrote: post #115

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Well, I appreciate that I can write decently :D but it requires me a lot of effort, my English skills are a source of big troubles at interviews with other countries. Sometimes I just get confused translating and I say something for something else

In fairness to your point, I guess I technically can't comment on your speaking, but your writing is definitely great. I wouldn't have guessed you're not a native speaker. Do you practice speech often? I'm a language learning fan but not a huge fan of talking in any language, so my speech always lags behind my writing in languages I study.

I never practice speech, that's something I should do, but my problem is that I like too much the English language spoken by an Italian person, and also I don't like the English pronounce. That's a strong obstacle to any improvement on English language sounds. I love written English, that's why I can write it, but I just don't like how it sounds, that's why I can't speak it.
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