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In Armusea, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up".

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In The red nation military, buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel.

Sunday Special at the Top & Bottom : brunch and a Design and Technology 101 Textbook.

Pretty Boy and Hunter leptk

Pretty Boy wrote:New poll. Regional Poll • Would you rather lose the ability to read or lose the ability to speak?

The ability to speak. I cannot imagine not being able to read. But I've gone weeks without uttering a single word before.

Ergyng wrote:The ability to speak. I cannot imagine not being able to read. But I've gone weeks without uttering a single word before.

Exactly, and if you must look up from your book there are other ways to communicate, n’est-ce pas?

Office Girls and Ergyng

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In Armusea, wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts.

I know of a WW II spy novel - can't remember the title - where two agents communicate at a distance using their copies of the same book. They send each other messages with references to chapter, page, paragraph and the place of each word in the text.
That's pretty cool. They couldn't talk, but they could communicate, and in code.

Pretty Boy wrote:Exactly, and if you must look up from your book there are other ways to communicate, n’est-ce pas?

Il est.
There very much seems to be an easy way out when choosing this answer.
I have a seemingly bit more difficult question. (though I am unsure if there still is a loophole).
Would you rather:
Lose the ability to communicate
Or literacy
Forever until the end?

Pretty Boy and Ergyng

Hunter leptk wrote:
Il est.
There very much seems to be an easy way out when choosing this answer.
I have a seemingly bit more difficult question. (though I am unsure if there still is a loophole).
Would you rather:
Lose the ability to communicate
Or literacy
Forever until the end?

That is a more difficult question. In that case I'd go with losing literacy.

I suppose I could have someone read and write for me when I need it.

In fact there's accessibility software for it designed for blind people, disabled people, etc. I know because I have some.

Office Girls, Pretty Boy, and Hunter leptk

Office Girls wrote:I know of a WW II spy novel - can't remember the title - where two agents communicate at a distance using their copies of the same book. They send each other messages with references to chapter, page, paragraph and the place of each word in the text.
That's pretty cool. They couldn't talk, but they could communicate, and in code.

That rings a bell, but I’m not remembering.

Hunter leptk wrote:Il est.
There very much seems to be an easy way out when choosing this answer.
I have a seemingly bit more difficult question. (though I am unsure if there still is a loophole).
Would you rather:
Lose the ability to communicate
Or literacy
Forever until the end?

Yes, yes, the question could have been different though I intended the question as it was. True extroverts would want to keep talking. More introverted people might happily give up talking for typing stuff like this on a smartphone or an iPad. The latter are more likely to be on NationStates.

Result • Would you rather lose the ability to read or lose the ability to speak?

Lose the ability to read - 2 votes

Lose the ability to speak - 15 votes

Ergyng

Pretty Boy wrote:That rings a bell, but I’m not remembering.

I remembered ! Yes !!!
It's The Key to Rebecca, by Ken Follett, 1980. The book used for code in the novel was Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.

Office Girls wrote:I remembered ! Yes !!!
It's The Key to Rebecca, by Ken Follett, 1980. The book used for code in the novel was Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.

I've heard of that book but not read it. I have read Rebecca. I like Daphne du Maurier.

Pretty Boy wrote:I've heard of that book but not read it. I have read Rebecca. I like Daphne du Maurier.

So do I. I read one of her least known novels, but a good one, The Flight of the Falcon.

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In Ergyng, political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act.

Ergyng

Ergyng wrote:That is a more difficult question. In that case I'd go with losing literacy.

I suppose I could have someone read and write for me when I need it.

In fact there's accessibility software for it designed for blind people, disabled people, etc. I know because I have some.

Crap.
There still seems to be a loophole.
And you instantaneously found it.

Ergyng

Pretty Boy wrote:

Yes, yes, the question could have been different though I intended the question as it was. True extroverts would want to keep talking. More introverted people might happily give up talking for typing stuff like this on a smartphone or an iPad. The latter are more likely to be on NationStates.

Hi, sorry.
I was just rereading my post, and realized that it is very critique-esque, and for that I apologize.
I realize that a lot of my attempts at conversation are usually in the form of criticism, which really isn't what I am attempting to do.
I just enjoy taking the designs of others and Hunterizing them.
I really need to stop evaluating everything like a historian.
Sorry,
Hunter Leptk

(this is probably overapologetic, so I mean, I am just really providing clarifications that my intentions aren't to be rude or mean, and that I hope no one takes my speech words in that way)

Hunter leptk wrote:Crap.
There still seems to be a loophole.
And you instantaneously found it.

I would choose losing Literacy as well. There are many cultures around the world that don't have a script nor a written history. Yet they have most beautiful and interesting oral literatures and create art. Reading and writing are not essential to their cultural identities and daily lives.

Ergyng and Hunter leptk

Hunter leptk wrote:Crap.
There still seems to be a loophole.
And you instantaneously found it.

Don't worry, finding loopholes is a specialty of mine. I'm a very efficient procrastinator.

Office Girls wrote:I would choose losing Literacy as well. There are many cultures around the world that don't have a script nor a written history. Yet they have most beautiful and interesting oral literatures and create art. Reading and writing are not essential to their cultural identities and daily lives.

Oral literature and history is always fun to learn, in fact a lot of history all of us are probably familiar with is partly transcribed oral history. A sizeable portion of what we know about the Old Norse, especially their religion, came from transcriptions of oral traditions by Icelandic monks for example.

Cultures without access to writing or which hold writing in a very important position still needed methods to consistently pass on knowledge without the loss of information, which often resulted in a class of individuals dedicated to memorising, reciting and telling these oral traditions. The best examples are from India with Gurus continuously reciting religious "text" in an unbroken line over the course of centuries or even millennia. It's fascinating.

Ergyng wrote:Don't worry, finding loopholes is a specialty of mine. I'm a very efficient procrastinator.

Oral literature and history is always fun to learn, in fact a lot of history all of us are probably familiar with is partly transcribed oral history. A sizeable portion of what we know about the Old Norse, especially their religion, came from transcriptions of oral traditions by Icelandic monks for example.

Cultures without access to writing or which hold writing in a very important position still needed methods to consistently pass on knowledge without the loss of information, which often resulted in a class of individuals dedicated to memorising, reciting and telling these oral traditions. The best examples are from India with Gurus continuously reciting religious "text" in an unbroken line over the course of centuries or even millennia. It's fascinating.

I concur.

You just reminded me of Elias Lönrott's own epic travels around Finland, collecting and recording stories and legends and ballads from Finnish storytellers, compiling them into what became known as the Kalevala.

Ergyng and Hunter leptk

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In Avemton, NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people.

New poll. Regional Poll • Have you read a Harry Potter novel?

Office Girls and Ergyng

I read up until my favourite character perished, I then realized I was just reading them to fit in with a group of potter-obsessed nerds and was not enjoying them. I promptly jumped apon the Rick Riordan banwagon.

Pretty Boy wrote:New poll. Regional Poll • Have you read a Harry Potter novel?

Yes, I have. I remember my exwife was a huge fan, and I made stupid, derisive comments about it.
But then I picked up a book and was hooked. Then I learned that J.K. Rowling had lived in Portugal. And suddenly realised where she got the name Salazar Slytherin from. It became obvious.
The novels are funny and imaginative. The stories get darker as characters grow up and come of age. Which is a shame, but art imitates life.

Pretty Boy and Ergyng

Lesbian piraters

i've been working out, would anyone like to arm wrestle me

Office Girls, Pretty Boy, and Ergyng

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