Forum name colors

[Crypt-keeper]

So whats up with the new colors on the names in the forums? I'm assuming it has something to do with A. The BKW only section and B. Donations. But what the hell do the mean?

[Frostbite]

was wondering the same myself :think:

[Mongo]

Red= administrators
Green= global moderator (uber admins)
Yellow= elite admins
red= blitz members
blue= registered users

[Strider]

Oooh! Green! That's my favourite colour...Cool

[Mongo]

*cough* color

[COUGAR_BAIT]

Mines more of a burgundy...

[CMDRRABB]

COUGAR_BAIT » 20 Apr 2010 19:38
Mines more of a burgundy...

Looks more of a faded "pink" to match those "socks".

[bavarianmonkey]

Oooh! Green! That's my favourite colour...Cool

coloUr ftw. :dance:

[Mongo]

Man card taken away. Man rule: explain colors in the base color system only. all that foofoo stuff is for interior decorators and women.

[Strider]

OK.... so here's the long text for you Mongo:

Most words ending in an unstressed -our in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Australia and most other English-speaking countries (e.g., colour, flavour, honour, neighbour, rumour, labour) end in -or in the United States (e.g., color, flavor, honor, neighbor, rumor, labor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation, this does not occur: contour, velour, paramour, troubadour, are spelled thus the same everywhere. Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur. [24] After the Norman Conquest, the termination became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or [25] , though color has been used occasionally in English since the fifteenth century. [26] The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings. [24] After the Renaissance, some such borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or termination; many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) now end in -or everywhere. Many words of the -our/-or group do not have a Latin counterpart; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r meaning "shelter", though senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor, a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th and early 17th century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words of Latin origin (e.g. color [26] ) and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not completely clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only. [27]

Webster's 1828 dictionary featured only -or and is generally given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the United States. By contrast, Dr Johnson's 1755 dictionary used the -our spelling for all words still so spelled in Britain, as well as for emperour, errour, governour, horrour, tenour, terrour, and tremour, where the u has since been dropped. Johnson, unlike Webster, was not an advocate of spelling reform, but selected the version best-derived, as he saw it, from among the variations in his sources: he favoured French over Latin spellings because, as he put it, "the French generally supplied us". [28] Those English speakers who began to move across the Atlantic would have taken these habits with them and H L Mencken makes the point that, "honor appears in the Declaration of Independence, but it seems to have got there rather by accident than by design. In Jefferson’s original draft it is spelled honour." [29] Examples such as color, flavor, behavior, harbor, or neighbor scarcely appear in the Old Bailey's court records from the 17th and 18th century, whereas examples of their -our counterparts are numbered in thousands. [30] One notable exception is honor: honor and honour were equally frequent down to the 17th century [31] , Honor still is, in the UK, the normal spelling as a person's name.


http://wapedia.mobi/en/American_and_Bri ... ifferences

So in short, ironically....the US have the DUMBED down version of the English language as we all know - or shood that be dummed down verzion ? HAHAHAHA LOL

[DeUltimaPunisher]

The forum user colours are:

Red = Administrators / Clan Leader
Green = Global moderators / Uber Admins
Gold = Elite Admins
Brass = Blitz Members / Admins

Blue is really just the default colour.

Elite Admins are members who have somehow made a significant contribution to the server. Right now there is no difference between the two except the colour of their names. Basically, they are members to be respected.

If I somehow over-looked you, and didn't add you (You will not be able to access the Blitz member only forum unless you're in one of these groups.) You will need to go into your user control panel, select the Usergroups tab and join the Blitz Members group, after which Mongo or I will approve you if you are an Admin.

[Mongo]

We may have dumbed your pompus language down but at least we kicked the shit out of those brit assholes.

way to cut and paste from wikipedia LOL

[Strider]

Hahaha - but you stooped to letting the French help you.....The French ! LOL

[Frostbite]

I still say we won that war... and France hasn't won a war on it's own other than their revolutionary war

[Mongo]

last time I checked we saved the brits ass in WWII, and the french.
Not only that the french whooped the brits ass at sea while they were running away with their tails between their legs to get home to their queen

[DeUltimaPunisher]

last time I checked we saved the brits ass in WWII, and the french.
Not only that the french whooped the brits ass at sea while they were running away with their tails between their legs to get home to their queen

Actually a very common misconception held "ONLY" by Americans. The Americans didn't save anyone's ass except for their own. They should have been in the war right from the get go, it was very common knowledge that American's were fat and lazy pussies before WW2. It wasn't until that war that you even built yourself the world class fighting force you have today.

But back to the point, The allies were already on the way to winning the war. All America did was speed it up the victory. Hitler was already starting to lose a lot of ground to the Russian's in the east, and was locked in a bitter stalemate with the British in the west, that could have lasted for a couple more years until Germany would have had to give up and turn it's attention to it's losing war against Russia.

Basically to the point, all you guys did was change who was the world dominating powers were after the war. Had America not joined, Russia would have taken over Germany and everything Germany captured, meaning Communism and not Capitalism would today be the world dominating ideology. Japan would have taken all of Asia, including Hawaii, and today most likely be a world dominating power, that is assuming that Russia and Japan made peace. Who knows, maybe the Japanese Empire (All of Asia) vs USSR (Most of Europe) would have been WWIII. Makes you wonder eh?

In conclusion, Thanks America, you saved millions of lives and shaved a couple years off the war, but don't ever take credit that if without you, world war II would have been lost to the Germans.

[Frostbite]

Russia was beginning to push forward, but that was primarily do to Hitler over extending his forces. I think Russia would have pushed to a point where Hitler could have supported better and that would have been the stop of that advance. And as you said Britain was in a stalemate with the Germans.

And saying that we should have entered from the get go is pushing it. The war had nothing to do with us at the beginning. We did help with ammunition and supplies when we saw that Germany was going to keep pushing, but did not want to lose American lives when it appeared that we didn't have to. As soon as Germany and Japan brought us into the war we fought.

I'm not saying without us the war would not have been won, but we did make a big difference in it. oh and we saved the lazy french.

[CMDRRABB]

by DeUltimaPunisher » 22 Apr 2010 14:33

Actually a very common misconception held "ONLY" by Americans. The Americans didn't save anyone's ass except for their own. They should have been in the war right from the get go, it was very common knowledge that American's were fat and lazy pussies before WW2. It wasn't until that war that you even built yourself the world class fighting force you have today.

uh oh....
After the fall of Singapore the Australian Government and many Australians feared that Japan would invade the Australian mainland. Australia was ill-prepared to counter such an attack as the RAAF lacked modern aircraft, the RAN was too small and unbalanced to counter the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Army, though large, contained many inexperienced units and could not be easily moved around the country. In response to this threat most of the AIF was brought back from the Middle East and the Government appealed to the United States for assistance.

and,
Part of the reason for going to war against the Germany, Japan and Italy. In March 1940: the Lend-Lease act was passed stating Roosevelt could direct aid to whomever he wanted. This meant that the US was no longer neutral. The US ended up contributing 42 billion dollars to the war effort by 1945. With Hitler taking over Europe, FDR saw fit to aid the British and French troops with arms

but Canada,

Having suffered from nearly twenty years of neglect, Canada's armed forces were small, poorly equipped, and for the most part unprepared for war in 1939. Attempts to modernize had begun in 1936, but equipment procurement was slow and the government was unwilling to expend money to equip the new tank battalions introduced that year. Approximately half of Canada's army and three-quarters of its air-force personnel never left the country, compared to the overseas deployment of approximately three-quarters of the forces of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
Consequently, the bulk of the Canadian army overseas did not engage in sustained combat until mid-1944. Many of the young soldiers of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, overseas since December 1939, could claim, by 1943, to have spent more of their adult lives in England than in Canada. Nevertheless, this guard duty served as a bulwark, along with British counterparts, in combating the threat from German occupied Europe during the time when the threat of invasion was at its greatest.

OUCH! Guard duty.

[grimmy]

Good Job strider, but thank goodness for them there dumb yanks that kept you from speaking Japanese, hahahahaha I've been watching The Pacific. :dance:

[Strider]

Yeah The Pacific is great. Amazing Story. I wonder if we will get Kokoda and the battle for Port Morseby (and last defense to keep the Japanese from launching an offensive against our mainland???

http://www.awm.gov.au/units/event_291.asp

Man, is there anything braver in the world than a frontal attack, covering flat, open ground againt a heavilly fortified enemy position. The crazy luck of it all, running across that airfield as to whether you die or survive to make it to the other side.....God Damn!

Tomorrow in Australia is ANZAC Day:
What is ANZAC Day?

ANZAC Day – 25 April – is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.
What does ANZAC stand for?

ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as ANZACs, and the pride they took in that name endures to this day.
Why is this day special to Australians?

When war broke out in 1914, Australia had been a federal commonwealth for only 13 years. The new national government was eager to establish its reputation among the nations of the world. In 1915 Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied navies. The ultimate objective was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany.

The Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated, after both sides had suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. Over 8,000 Australian soldiers had been killed. News of the landing on Gallipoli had made a profound impact on Australians at home, and 25 April soon became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who had died in the war.

Although the Gallipoli campaign failed in its military objectives, the Australian and New Zealand actions during the campaign left us all a powerful legacy. The creation of what became known as the “ANZAC legend” became an important part of the identity of both nations, shaping the ways they viewed both their past and their future.

So hats off to all those Australian servicemen, from the Boer War through to Afghanistan that have worn our Australian colours proudly, and stood up for all of us to support just causes and the defense of our nation!!!!

As well, to our Allies - and the support given to us through the Great Wars...

Respect.

[Frostbite]

Man, is there anything braver in the world than a frontal attack, covering flat, open ground againt a heavilly fortified enemy position. The crazy luck of it all, running across that airfield as to whether you die or survive to make it to the other side.....God Damn!

fuck that... that is the craziest action ever. I see that it's important, but if I ever have to do it, I'll definitely be scared out of my mind.

[grimmy]

Thats why i LOVE Strand sooo much. Its the rush you get making it off the beach and blowing up an objective.