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Any news on Peace Talks
AndiSue:
--- Quote from: Salusen on February 06, 2019, 11:22:28 PM ---So, any news on Peace Talks?
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The Upcoming Works page at jim-butcher.com is being updated every couple of weeks with the current chapter of the draft. You could check there.
segaily:
--- Quote from: Dina on February 07, 2019, 05:07:38 AM ---I knew you had the concept of mediation, but I was not sure if my translation of the word "mediación" was accurate, as I am not very used to legalese (in English. In Spanish, I am relatively fluent because I've taken dictations from my dad more than once).
I am not trying to say that you or anyone else is being stupid, and I don't think that is the case. I've known brilliant people here. Nevertheless, I've been telling people that since I've joined this forum and I am not going to stop now. I think most people from USA simply does not realize how colonialist that word sounds for us many of us and I am just trying to make people aware of that. Not stop using the word, of course, but just thinking of it. When someone tries to tell me I don't live in América, it annoys me, I can't help it (I generally say "US citizens" but with another forumite (from USA) we used to jokingly say "USers"). Give me some credit for writing so many posts in English without using "Americans" :P.
Being honest, what really, really annoys me is when people in my country or other Latin American Countries use "Americano" instead of norteamericano o estadounidense. None of those words is perfect, but it's the correct word and it is not bad for us. When we really want to say "From North America", including México and Canada, we use some expression like "americanos del norte" o "gente de América del Norte". I really wish my own people was not so brainwashed, because as you said, in Spanish we are all "americanos", There are not many Americas, there is only one. That is why there is the OAS, Organization of American States, which does not mean the States of USA but the Countries of America.
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As a US citizen who now lives in Canada I quickly noticed after moving that you do not hear American used much. Canadians usually say the States when talking about the United States or people from the States. If talking about an individual you often hear Texan, Californian etc or just they are from the States. I used to use American all the time but now try to avoid it as to my ear it now sounds like I am forgetting the US is not the whole continent.
To get back to the main topic I am really happy Jim is posting the updates to the page. I realize that 43 chapters means they is still a bit to go but seeing steady progress has me back to listening to the audio versions of the books in my car again. With the amount I drive the new book might well be out about the same time as I get through them all again. :)
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 07, 2019, 01:33:09 PM ---We live in alternate realities when it comes to sharp implements.
And I'm from Kentucky, where my sisters next door neighbor has a range in his backyard where he fires multiple weapons using gunpowder. Of course she is in the suburbs. Shooting a gun in the back yard is illegal inside the urban limit in almost every jurisdiction that I'm aware of. Even Texas. :)
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Urban, suburban, countryside iT does not matter here. Even of you can het a license you have to store your gun and amno in seperate locker containers and you can only shoot at a resignaties shooting range usually a recognised club I believe.
I sometimes watch those clips in YouTube where someone buys a reproducties of a mediëval longsword and tests the sharpness with a piece of paper and continuers to hack in chainmail to see hoe it holds. I just need my knife to cut garlick
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on February 07, 2019, 06:13:30 PM ---Urban, suburban, countryside iT does not matter here. Even of you can het a license you have to store your gun and amno in seperate locker containers and you can only shoot at a resignaties shooting range usually a recognised club I believe.
I sometimes watch those clips in YouTube where someone buys a reproducties of a mediëval longsword and tests the sharpness with a piece of paper and continuers to hack in chainmail to see hoe it holds. I just need my knife to cut garlick
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Ever watch Forge in Fire? Kind of like Chopped only it is four blade smiths crafting a knife in a designated time.. They then test the blades, it is fascinating to watch for a number of reasons.. Anyway the two finalists are given a challenge to recreate a weapon, anything from sword to cross bow from history across the world. They are given five days at their home forges to do it, then the weapons are tested.. The kind of damage that those weapons can do up close and personal makes me cringe.. They have also began to uncover mass graves from battle grounds of the Middle Ages. The knight of old went for the legs.... Most of the skeletons of the soldiers either had their bottom legs lopped off or severely damaged in battle..
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 07, 2019, 06:46:44 PM ---Ever watch Forge in Fire? Kind of like Chopped only it is four blade smiths crafting a knife in a designated time.. They then test the blades, it is fascinating to watch for a number of reasons.. Anyway the two finalists are given a challenge to recreate a weapon, anything from sword to cross bow from history across the world. They are given five days at their home forges to do it, then the weapons are tested.. The kind of damage that those weapons can do up close and personal makes me cringe.. They have also began to uncover mass graves from battle grounds of the Middle Ages. The knight of old went for the legs.... Most of the skeletons of the soldiers either had their bottom legs lopped off or severely damaged in battle..
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Probably because the lege were the most difficult to defend and lees armoured. Or you just make a feint at the leg and when he lift his schield to defend you hit the leg. All explained on YouTube your indispensable source of you want to know how a Viking would do against a Roman legionary.
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