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snowflake13 wrote: A question to Aura: did you know that in Russian, there actually IS a word for a meal between lunch and dinner? It is called "poldnik", what roughly means "a noon meal" (despite its actual timing).
Russian isn't unique in that sense... :P
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Aura wrote:
snowflake13 wrote:First of all, thank you for the awesome game.

Actually, I think you're already pretty bored of all these "thank you" posts.

A question to Aura: did you know that in Russian, there actually IS a word for a meal between lunch and dinner? It is called "poldnik", what roughly means "a noon meal" (despite its actual timing).
I wonder how the translation of that line to Russian goes then.
It'd make it obvious to the Russian players that this game wasn't originally made in Russian. :lol:

PS: "Supper" is the proper term, dinner is actually the term for the meal between lunch and supper.
So it goes: Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Supper.
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Steinherz wrote:PS: "Supper" is the proper term, dinner is actually the term for the meal between lunch and supper.
So it goes: Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Supper.
I approve it to be 80% Russian-compatible. And poldnik always indicated a time before supper, but after dinner, not like a "noon meal", but "half-day meal" (wikipedia approves both meanings btw). And I was using Lunch word for Brunch. Lunch, as my English teacher told me, was a snack time before dinner. So, the more correct line for me is Breakfast (0800), Lunch (snack time, 1100-1200), Dinner (1400), Poldnik (snack time again, 1600), Supper (finishing meal, 1800-2000, rarely later, even 2000 is very late already).

Also changing language on poldnik page gives you an "afternoon tea"/"low tea" page.

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Aura wrote:I wonder how the translation of that line to Russian goes then.
If someone provides me with an exact quote, I'll give you a sample of a back-to-forth traslation (line in Russian and literal translation back to English).
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PS: "Supper" is the proper term, dinner is actually the term for the meal between lunch and supper.
Here in the U.S. supper and dinner are used interchangeably.
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Oddball wrote:
PS: "Supper" is the proper term, dinner is actually the term for the meal between lunch and supper.
Here in the U.S. supper and dinner are used interchangeably.
I know, I live in the US.
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Oddball wrote:
PS: "Supper" is the proper term, dinner is actually the term for the meal between lunch and supper.
Here in the U.S. supper and dinner are used interchangeably.
In the US, "supper" is only used by your grandma and other people over the age of 70
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Jobriq wrote:In the US, "supper" is only used by your grandma and other people over the age of 70
This sounds legit, since my English teacher was a very old lady, and I never ever heard this word from anyone but her and myself.
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Jobriq wrote:
Oddball wrote:
PS: "Supper" is the proper term, dinner is actually the term for the meal between lunch and supper.
Here in the U.S. supper and dinner are used interchangeably.
In the US, "supper" is only used by your grandma and other people over the age of 70
It's still widely used in the south.

... But I think we're straying off topic here.
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The definitive answer to dinner vs supper (for the USA)

On topic, to anyone, what is your current occupation?
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neio wrote: On topic, to anyone, what is your current occupation?
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neio wrote:The definitive answer to dinner vs supper (for the USA)

On topic, to anyone, what is your current occupation?
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Oddball wrote:On topic, to anyone, what is your current occupation?
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What would you recommend for communication on a project of this scale? Skype, IRC, email, forums? A combination of those?

Second, how much did musicians, authors, and artists give feedback to the people in the other areas?

How did you make sure that you didn't fall behind or slow down? Did you set deadlines or something?

How many fields (art, writing, music, coding, etc.) did the typical member work in?

Which field consumed the most resources?

Final question: I'm not planning to launch into this project for about another year, at the earliest. Until then, what type of programming would be the most useful to learn?
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