COTA = War-Historical's Wargame of the Year 2006

[sterckxe]

Hi,

The result from Usenet's War-Historical vote is in :

Wargame of the Year 2006 : COTA
2nd place : Birth of America
3rd place : TOAW III

Congrats to Panther Games and everyone involved with the game.

Additional Good News : Cota is leading the pack in the ongoing election over at Xtreme-Gamer as well

http://www.xtreme-gamer.com/forums/gene ... 006-a.html

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

[sapper_astro]

I am glad there has been some competition this year. It actually would have surprised me if this game didn't take the crown though. Its an entirely new way of doing wargaming, mixed with the fact that it works, extremely well. There have been other games released that did a solid job using old styles of gaming that I enjoy, but this game does take the cake.
 
Congrats to the Panther gang. You earned it.

[Arjuna]

It's great winning this award. The war-historical newsgroup is a bit like one of those wild frontier bars. You know the one's where you walk in slow to give you enough time to size up the clientel and where you're on your guard just waiting for the wild brawl to break out. It's a no holds barred kind of forum, where frank and open discussion can sometimes be taken to the extreme. Users speak their mind there. Sometimes they speak before engaging their mind but on the whole the commentary there is well informed.
 
To secure the award in that environment is a great honour and one I would like to share with all the Panther staff and especially the Panther Prowlers, who deserve a good deal of the credit. They have put in many hours of voluntary effort, made many wise-cracks and jibes to keep tired eyes open and generally have been a great bunch of guys to share this passion with. Salute. [&o][&o][&o]

[alaric99x]

You guys are doing a great job, you fully deserve this recognition; but you spelled "honor" wrong.

[Banquet]

ORIGINAL: alaric99x

You guys are doing a great job, you fully deserve this recognition; but you spelled "honor" wrong.

He spelt it the English way.. i.e, the correct way [;)]

[RayWolfe]

ORIGINAL: alaric99x
You guys are doing a great job, you fully deserve this recognition; but you spelled "honor" wrong.

[:D]
Don't let that colour your judgement. [;)]
Ray

[Rooster]

Yes, very English.  And call everyone Guv'ner too.  [:D]
Dan

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: RayWolfe

ORIGINAL: alaric99x
You guys are doing a great job, you fully deserve this recognition; but you spelled "honor" wrong.

[:D]
Don't let that colour your judgement. [;)]
Ray

Never could understand why the Brits spell color in way that would alter it's pronunciation to "colure", nor why the add an "e" between the "r" and the "y" in story.

Brits and Yanks truly are two peoples seperated by a common language!

[RayWolfe]

Hey! It is OUR language. We can spell it however we want. [:'(]
Anyway for a people who chose to pronounce Missile as Missel you are hardly in a position to complain. [8|]
Cheers
Ray

[MarkShot]

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[MarkShot]

Just idle musings ... I always thought the British use of "ou" where as compared to the American use of "o" reflects the closer continental linguistic ties between English and French. In French cognate words, you'll find the spelling as "ou". Just a thought ... The real question is why did American spellings change this?

Maybe if spell checkers had existed in 1700 we would all still be writing colour and labour ... (Actually, another interesting topic is whether since the impact of the printed word, media, globalization, and Internet has slowed the process of language change, diversity of languages, and new language development.) Where's our resident PhD? Chelco, this sounds like a topic worthy of a thesis, don't you think?

[HansBolter]

The difficulty it causes for me is that when I se "colour" I want to pronounce it like "velour" and not like "coller" as we Yanks have butchered it to be for us.

Hmm...that last sentence brings up another point. Techinically, since the first vowel is followed by a single consanant rather than a double consanant, it should technically be a long vowel rather than the short vowel as we tend to pronounce it.

I have often wondered if other languages are anywhere near as bad as English is at vilolating it's own rules........

"I" before "E", except following "C" and when sounding like "A" as in "neighbor" and "weigh"..........[8|]

My hat is off to those who have learned it as a second language!

[sterckxe]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter
My hat is off to those who have learned it as a second language!

Hate to disappoint you but English is actually one of the more easy languages in terms of grammar and spelling rules. On top of that you can find this on the 'Net

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Euro-English

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the European Union rather
than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5
year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in
favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have
one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible.Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre
that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and
it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a
reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and
evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united
urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking
German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

- -

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

[RayWolfe]

[:D][:D][:D]

[MarkShot]

Having formally studied Spanish, French, and German. I will say that both Spanish and German have much more logical structure of spelling than either English or French. Of course, nothing rivals German's grammer for complexity (except, probably Latin which I do not know, but so they say). Ah, German ... 16 forms of "the" ... sentences that run for an entire page ... grammar that requires countless word alterations ... composite words with a 20-30 letters. Of all the languages I studied or was exposed to, it was the only one that I was never any good at and never acquired a practical use for.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: sterckxe

ORIGINAL: HansBolter
My hat is off to those who have learned it as a second language!

Hate to disappoint you but English is actually one of the more easy languages in terms of grammar and spelling rules. On top of that you can find this on the 'Net

- -

Euro-English

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the European Union rather
than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5
year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in
favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have
one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible.Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre
that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and
it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a
reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and
evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united
urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking
German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

- -

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

OMG! That was awesome. [X(]

Mono lingual here, aside of course from the obligatory few spanish words necessitated by living in a place like Florida, so I have to defer to the lingual wisdom of others.

[sterckxe]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter
Mono lingual here, aside of course from the obligatory few spanish words necessitated by living in a place like Florida, so I have to defer to the lingual wisdom of others.

Multi-linguism is often overrated - if your work/life environment doesn't require it, it's just another hobby skil like knowing how to skate or knowing the difference between a PzKfw IV and V

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

[alaric99x]

Sorry I started all this.  It was just meant to be a little joke.  "Yes, a very little joke," all the Brits are saying.
 
Eddy, I don't know where you got that from, but I like it.

[alaric99x]

...I mean the Euro-English thing.

[goodwoodrw]

Boy this is the best hijacked thread I've seen in ages, congrats to Panther, lap up the centRE of the attention, and stuff the grammer crap [:D][:D]