Time Commanders

[tai4ji2x]

for those interested, linguists use what's called the International Phonetic Alphabet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...netic_alphabet

[tai4ji2x]

btw, season two is forthcoming. http://www.totalwar.com/time2.htm

still hoping someone out there is generous enough to try and video-capture pharsalus and qadesh from season 1... ;)

[Kraxis]

for those interested, linguists use what's called the International Phonetic Alphabet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...netic_alphabet

Imagine when this alphabet is found sometime in the distant future... It will be like:
"It is obvious that sometime around 1500-2200 a group of people splintered away from the main European culture. During their wanderings (also called the 2nd migration period) they developed their latin alphabet into what we now call the drawn alphabet (from the many interestingly drawn symbols). Obviously it has roots in the even more ancient greek and phoenician alphabets, indicating that it was something that survived the ages, until the migrations finally took it up again.
Interestingly enough it has never been found near the large religious grounds, such as outside Roskilde or any of the other places where thousands of people gathered to pay homage to their gods at large altars (usually they would be crammed tightly togther only at one side) for days on end, where they sacrificed many thousands of oddly shaped coins to the ground (circular in shape but with one side ebnt inwards in a serrated fashion). That indicates that the splinter groups were heretics to the normal population and it can explain the migration and the relative lack of physical evidence."

[tai4ji2x]

kraxis:

huh? when i said linguists "use" the IPA, i certainly don't mean that they write everything (letters, email, books, etc) in it. that would be silly. they just use it as a tool for representing human speech in a standard way. it is almost always interspersed as notation within a main body of text, which would be written in the linguist's native language.

[Kraxis]

kraxis:

huh? when i said linguists "use" the IPA, i certainly don't mean that they write everything (letters, email, books, etc) in it. that would be silly. they just use it as a tool for representing human speech in a standard way. it is almost always interspersed as notation within a main body of text, which would be written in the linguist's native language.

I know that... Otherwise would be silly indeed. I just made a joke about how this in the future will be handled, just like I made a little joke about musical festivals, and how they would be interpreted in the future.