Re: POLITICIANS AND OTHERS IN GAMING

At 07:11 PM 6/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>The trick lies in making sure everyone gets your references. Oerjan
isn't 
>American and should be expected (if not encouraged) to miss some
cultural 
>references made by Americans. And vice versa. The UK and Commonwealth 
>folks on this list give me a smattering of 'local' slang and dialect
that 
>has proved endearing more often than embarassing when dealing with 
>visitors to the US.
>
>For example, on the off chance, someone hasn't seen the Fighting
Seabees, 
>they might get the idea and they might not. What's a Seabee and how
does 
>that relate to the bulldozer ? Maybe they don't know who JohnWayne is. 
>It's possible on the Internet.
>
>In your local gaming group, with people you know, it's a LOT easier to
use 
>references given the common background. But everybody ain't from these 
>here parts.

And this can be really fun if like me, you're an ex-pat Brit living and 
gaming in Miami, FL, and having to cope with the US version of English,
and 
players who break into Spanish at points...

John S.

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