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alexanderthegr8 (0

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24 Feb 12 UTC

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Join Ancient Amazing on games, newfor awesomeness

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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Game "Please Finalize" is over

gameID=79291
Thanks for the game guys, I really enjoyed it.
Maniac, great alliance and sorry for the stab. I had a secured position in the Med so I had to go for the solo.

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23 Feb 12 UTC

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Neutrino speed

' [R]esearchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claimed they had recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.
Now it seems Einstein's reputation has been restored after a source close to the experiment told the US journal Science Insider that "A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame." UNQUOTE - Daily Telegraph 2/23/12

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18 Feb 12 UTC

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webDip F2F 2012?

We started planning Boston F2F in December, so we appear to be behind... or is the plan to crash World Diplomacy Championship at Weasel Moot VI : http://www.facebook.com/events/237129306368896/

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23 Feb 12 UTC

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Statistical Study

is it possible to take all the games played on webdiplomacy (over 30,000) and do a statisitical study of opening moves, country wins, etc. If we can do it for moneyball, certainly we can do it here.

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Join Ancient Awesome

bet 10
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bet/supply centre
start 30 min

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19 Jan 12 UTC

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Mid-Atlantic USA WC Team

Are you from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, DC, or Virginia?
Then you should consider joining the Mid-Atlantic USA WC Team! Needs 3 more as of now

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20 Feb 12 UTC

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Why doesn't this website email you when a game starts??

I missed the start of 2 games because I was not informed that they started. I am new to this website.

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alexanderthegr8 (0

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23 Feb 12 UTC

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join quick/were awesome game

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17 Feb 12 UTC

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Anti-Choicers: Let's Rape Women with Vaginal Probe

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/146564/shocking_new_abortion_bills_require_vaginal_probe_ultrasound_and_collection_of_women's_private_data/

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20 Feb 12 UTC

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I Am Officially Ashamed Of This.......WHEN, WHY Did The USA Become...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/19/science-scepticism-usdomesticpolicy
When did we go from a nation founded by great figures of the Englightenment and a leader in science and innovation to...the ignorant nation we are today, one that seems to actively fight progress and embrace stupidity and decadence?

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URGENT FROM THE MODERATORS (Or at least one of us)

All of you know that the method to reach us is through e-mail. But some seem to forget that it needs to go both ways.
Go, right now, to your profile settings and make sure that whatever e-mail address you have there is one you regularly log into. I mean it. Don't fall asleep tonight without checking.
"I didn't see your email." will never be a valid excuse. So make sure we're immune to any over-protective spam filters too.

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21 Feb 12 UTC

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1 more for 1000 D Gunboat

I only need 1 more for my new gunboat game (gameID=80337). Please join. It will be fun. MadMarx is rumoured to be involved. 1 more needed for this awesomeness.

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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Tricks in Gunboat games?

Any tricks or protocols in Gunboat games to show an other party your intentions?

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redhouse1938 (429

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21 Feb 12 UTC

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The beating heart of the scientific world

...is in Switzerland?
http://www.areppim.com/analysis/stats/stats_nobelxchemxcapita.htm
http://www.areppim.com/analysis/stats/stats_nobelxphysxcapita.htm

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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Is there a game option for a preference list or first come first serve?

Is there a game option for a preference list or first come first serve?I did not see it in the new game options. Getting random countries totally sucks. The first 3 times I got the countries I least wanted - the 4th time my country was ganged up on in the first turn. playdiplomacy.com has both options available for its game.

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16 Feb 12 UTC

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Capital Region Team - Diplomacy World Cup

New thread for Capital Region team

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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Player kicked and banned in Autumn 1901.

Russia was cheating so admins decided to kick him and gave us extra 24 hours to find someone else to pick up the slack.

gameID=80784

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04 Feb 12 UTC

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February GR???

TGM, are you there?
As always, we anxiously await your judgment.

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HalberMensch (1783

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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looking for two players to save world map game ...

this is the game:
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=78381
India and FA were banned, being a(?) multi. it would be a pity to lose the game due to them/him.

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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Fast gunboat - 31

Comments? Boy, that Russian CD...

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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NAIMUN XLIX

While I was at NAIMUN I could not stop thinking to myself that there had to be others that play on webdip, most of the tactics for each apply to the other so well. Did anybody else here participate in NAIMUN his year and if so how?

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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disabling notices for live games?

this must have been asked before, but is there anyway of disabling the move notices in live games? i don't care as much about the "you lost" or "player x won the game" messages, but what if someone sent me a message while the game was in progress? i might never get it, cause my homepage only displays the last i don't know, 20 messages or something, and those all get filled during the live game. or is there a way of seeing a history of older messages?

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F2F in NYC

We've had our latest game Feb 19th which was another success. Thank you for those who came out. Shout out to Mitchell McConeghy who came out for the first time. AAR is here: http://www.playdiplomacy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=26023

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jacobcfries (783

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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Mods Available?

Could a moderator please check the email?

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muhammad69 (185

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22 Feb 12 UTC

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Multi Account Cheaters

How do I report multi account cheaters?

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21 Feb 12 UTC

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Offshore fleet providing support question

If a fleet is providing support to an attacking army, and the fleet in question is attacked, will it still provide support? Example to follow

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smcbride1983 (517

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21 Feb 12 UTC

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Newbie with a Rules Question

Can a Fleet on the NC of Spain move to Portugal while the Fleet in Portugal moves to the SC of Spain? Or would they bounce?

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18 Feb 12 UTC

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English spelling reform

Yes or no?

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Ursa (1617 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Greetings forum community,

A short while ago it became aware to me that the spelling of the English language has not been changed for a century or so. I myself am not a native speaker, and in my language the relation between written words and spoken language is very direct. As my thesis is that the written language should follow the spoken language, I think it's time the UK and/or the US consider a serious spelling revision.

Some examples:

Language - mostly pronounced as [lengwich]. A better spelling would be langwich, so lose the 'uage'.

Enough - on the internet one may frequently spot 'enuf' instead of 'enough'. While enuf perhaps is an ugly word it captures the fonetics better. Perhaps 'enufh'?

Though - I've seen on this site 'though' changing into 'tho'. A much better suited word IMHO. Same goes for 'altho'.

* So, should there be a serious spelling revision?
* And if so, which words would you like to see changed?

Game on!

redhouse1938 (429 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Ursa, before you go down this ill advised route, may I remind you that in your language a spelling authority exists that the English language lacks. English spelling is based on "common usage", i.e., what you find in literature to be the dominant spelling is the right spelling. That's probably because the English speaking world is so much vaster than the Dutch-speaking one :-)

President Eden (2750 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

"-uage" and "-ough" are such pretty endings, though. I can't get enough of visually-pleasing endings in a language.

Ursa (1617 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

That may be so, but what if the [w]ritten lang[wich] is a serious deficiency for young students to learn to [w]rite?

redhouse1938 (429 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

I'll accept lengwhich but only if we can start writing sanduage.

President Eden (2750 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Is it? English is more difficult to learn, certainly, but I note that it's because of archaic grammar rules and not word spelling.

Emac (0 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Does changes to Duz, but only when you are talking about laundry detergent.

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

I must say, I know NOBODY who pronounces "language" "langwich." First thing might be to have somebody carry out the reforms who can actually pronounce the language.

In any case, I'm with PE. Our language is pretty, and the supposed "troubles to the young" are not that bad. Plenty of them grow up to write beautiful things with their language, and I wouldn't want it to be a whit less inspiring for them.

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

(I will say, though, I'd kind of like to see America re-adopt the British spelling of -our words -- colour, etc.)

santosh (335 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

"We're going to spell colour as color" said America. "Fuck u"

Ursa (1617 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

@semck83: and how do you pronounce language?

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

With a g, as it's spelled. Oh, sure, it may not be distinguishable in every sentence, but there's no question that's how I'm saying it. It's the same as suggesting "fudge" should be spelled "fuch." There's a far more pronounced trailing j sound with the "dge" ending.

Ursa (1617 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

So you say [langwach]? Interesting.

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

No, I do not. No form of the "ch" sound ends the word "language" for me.

President Eden (2750 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

One of my close friends is studying linguistics... maybe I could ask him what he thinks.

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Ursa, in short, if you wanted a more simple-minded phonetic spelling of how I say "language," it would be [lang-wij]. Put differently, I end it with IPA d3, and I end "sandwich" with IPA tS.

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

(Finally, I'll note that I had to add a hyphen in the above phonetic spelling to emphasize the break between the g and the w. This is exactly what the current spelling, "language," does so well.)

Marti the Bruce (100 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

ursa, the english written language is a beautiful language which is unfortunately butchered on a daily basis. This is horrible enough as it is, and i would hate to see that become official policy.

Ursa (1617 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Uptil unto a while ago I would actually agree with you. In Holland there are quite some spelling or grammar nazis who feel the language is detoriating. However, the written language always follows the spoken language. You could say the spoken language is the living language, inventing new words or pronounciations and borrowing words from other languages (in Dutch we use quite some words out of the English language). In that case written language is the 'dead' or 'instilled' language: spoken language penned down. Futhermore, spoken language is the more important of the two. So, written language should follow spoken language (and not the other way around) and if the written spelling differs much from the spoken word it should be changed.

redhouse1938 (429 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

"spelling or grammar nazis"?
Where... exactly do I find these?

Salmaneser (6327 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

If you want to stay as close to spoken language as possible, it should be spelled langwidzj/lengwidzj. That doesn't look like English anymore.

It could be helpful to adapt that to the Dutch language though, people wouldn't make as many mistakes in their verbs then :)

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Right.... again, though, you don't actually seem to have a very good handle on the ways in which the spoken word does and doesn't differ from spelling. Moreover, I think your complaint is less that written language doesn't reflect changing pronunciation than that it's just too danged complicated. For example, as I've already pointed out, "language" actually much better reflects the way that word is pronounced than does "langwich" (given, of course, English pronunciation rules), yet you prefer the latter for simplicity. This is quite another matter.

Finally, "should be changed" by whom? We don't have an academy, thank God.

semck83 (229 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YS19p_1CUo

Octavious (2701 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Reform English? Use landwich in the stead of language? English will never change! Sadly it is one of the clock and and I cannot continue this debate.

God be wy you

carpenter (645 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Please, no! I detest such government-regulated spelling and grammar rules.
(Damn, I start sounding like TC on these kinds of topics)

luke_poa (401 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

The English language favors etymology in its written form. That helps people to see how words are related to each other, but it makes it more difficult to write. Thus, it is harder for beginners, but more useful once you learn the language.

My native language, Portuguese, favors a phonological approach to writing. It is easier to learn, but makes it harder to see how words are related.

Both approaches have their merits and flaws, but changing from one to the other is quite radical.

Octavious (2701 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Indeed. I refuse to even consider that English needs some kind of coordinated reform until other langauges drop their painfully idiotic masculine and feminine words bollocks.

Maniac (189 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

Whilst changing the spelling of some words may help those learning to spell it can only hinder those who can spell already and have to try and decipher the new spellings. My grandmother would look at words like 'lang-wij' and struggle to put any meaning to it. We would create an even wider divide between the generations. Let our spelling systen develop naturally.

BTW, If anyone really struggles with a particular spelling rule, let me know. I was perhaps the world's worst speller (possibly because I couldn't speak properly until quite late) so I invented a number of characters that help me with just about every British pelling rule there is.

Maniac (189 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

*British spelling

Cybil Disorder (154 )
18 Feb 12 UTC

All English speakers' accents are so varied, we need to have concrete rules for spelling that aren't phonetic. I'm canadian (uninlflected English) and would sound like a drunk if I said "language" as "lengwich"......keep spelling as it is please

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Help from the clever math people please

Probability question inside

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