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On December 17 2010 07:05 Koh wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2010 06:36 The Touch wrote:On December 17 2010 06:32 Ziktomini wrote:On December 17 2010 06:29 BetterFasterStronger wrote:On December 17 2010 06:27 Blobskillz wrote:sorry but GB english makes my foreigner ears hurt. So please stick to american  You mean the English from the people who founded our country... that english aka... real english? To be fair to him, most people in England cannot speak English properly. It's true  No it isn't  It's not a statment of fact. It's false. The vast majority of people in England can speak English properly, they certainly aren't speaking French. Maybe you have a little bit of prejudice for people with "urban" accents and dialects? The problem is then yours my friend, as dialects and accents are a feature of all human societies, and too frequently correlated with intelligence or "correctness".
Indeed.. this is surely somewhat off topic, but languages are evolved purely by slang, and borrowing words from other languages and changing them.
For instance Scandinavian and English people could understand eachother without any trouble 500+ years ago, however the languages have evolved by people inventing new words.
So what I'm saying is that as long as you're raised in a sertain country, it's 100% impossible to not speak the language properly. The inproper way of speaking English, is going to be what schools teach you in 50 years, if even that.
Either way there's been alot of complaints on comentators using too few words, so throwing in some british slang might be refreshing. Worth a try atleast ^^ If it gets too predictible, it pretty quickly gets boring imho.
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On December 17 2010 16:32 sluggaslamoo wrote:
Bring on D.Apollo?
Please, lord, no. Nice chap, but no.
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this thread is quite possibly made of win incarnate.
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Are there any more artosis sayings that people want translated? :D
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On December 17 2010 05:45 Orome wrote:
I read this entire thread in TotalBiscuit's voice. Good stuff. :p
Rofl
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A few suggestions from an ex-pat:
I think the 'High level play' section could use a sprinkling of the word 'Immense', as popularised by many football commentators:
'Immense Banshee play, it's got upwards of a dozen kills'
'The Zerg lad's* baneling macro is immense!'
'A player of immense stature, he straddles the starcraft pro-scene like a mighty collosus'
*lad should be used wherever possible to denote a player, to give the commentary a truly British flavour.
Perhaps use the word 'Massive' more, and when it is used, 'Dick Van Dyke' the syllables until you arrive at a pronunciation more akin to 'Ma-HOO-sive' (as pioneered by Ian Wright).
'A Ma-HOO-sive bioball, it's hard to imagine what could stop this Terran assault'
'The collosus has a Ma-HOO-sive number of kills'
'Frankly, his APM is Ma-HOO-sive, really sorts the men from the boys'
Numerous units (be they banelings or whatever)
'He's got stacks and stacks of banelings!'
'He's got a skip-load of banelings'
''A shed-load of banelings, rolling into into has opponent's base, this game's for the taking'
'He's got more banelings than you could shake a stick at!'
Baller:
'This lad's wedding vegetables are bigger than Stonehenge!'
Switching Terran tech add-ons:
'He's castling* his Barracks and Factory, looks like we're in for some Thor shenanigans'
*Appropriating the unique King/Rook move from chess, whenever I see buildings switch, I can't help but think in these terms. I played way too much chess as a lad.
Great OP - made me chortle
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I've actually heard artosis use a few of these before. Otherwise, still a pretty funnny OP.
The French victory one is pretty good lol.
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''A shed-load of banelings, rolling into into has opponent's base, this game's for the taking'
Best one I've seen, mainly because shed-load is something I use all the time. 
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would be very entertaining to see artosis pulling some of those :D
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thats some funny stuff, british idiums are some of the best in the english speaking world.
you forgot a couple of really good ones tho!
No way he can come back from this
It's all gone pete tong for x
He's pissing in to the wind right now
like a norfolk hooker....there's no way he can come back from that (you really won't get that one if ur not from the UK tho)
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5/5 for makarax alone, thank you sir!
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Suggestion for the blunder dept.
"There's nothing like a good all-in, but that was nothing like a good all-in."
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On December 17 2010 19:06 emythrel wrote:
thats some funny stuff, british idiums are some of the best in the english speaking world.
you forgot a couple of really good ones tho!
No way he can come back from this
It's all gone pete tong for x
He's pissing in to the wind right now
like a norfolk hooker....there's no way he can come back from that (you really won't get that one if ur not from the UK tho)
Unorthodox play here. -> This strategy is totally Barmy/Bonkers/Crackers
The army dies and this is over -> The army dies and Bob's your Uncle.
WOW huge damage -> Bloody Hell, would you look at that!
Zealots hitting a Nexus -> Trashing the place like Chavs in a shopping center.
I'm surprised -> I'm utterly gobsmacked.
Those Gateways are lined up badly/well -> Those Gateways are wonky/terraced
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On December 17 2010 13:27 lowercase wrote:
If we can get Michael Caine to do a commentary between matches, I can die happy.
"Hes only gone and blown the bloddy thors up!"
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Hilarious. Perhaps he could say at a massive blunder, "Did you see that ludricrous display Tasteless?"
or Baller could be "I reckon he's thinks he's the bees knees after that match" follwed by "Rightly so" from tasteless
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Gosh, you dont want to move your Stalkers in there guv'nor!
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On December 17 2010 05:56 nttea wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2010 05:45 Orome wrote:
I read this entire thread in TotalBiscuit's voice. Good stuff. :p me too! and it sounds like alot of these things are stuff he would say kk~~
Needs more hyperbole and unnecessary uses of the word 'devastation'. Sorry.
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On December 17 2010 23:00 TotalBiscuit wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2010 05:56 nttea wrote:On December 17 2010 05:45 Orome wrote:
I read this entire thread in TotalBiscuit's voice. Good stuff. :p me too! and it sounds like alot of these things are stuff he would say kk~~ Needs more hyperbole and unnecessary uses of the word 'devastation'. Sorry.
You wound me squire, you wound me.
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