Primal

This Georgia (US) player does not find it offensive in the slightest, and in fact has never known anyone who would, especially coming from someone English or Australian. Obviously I can't speak for the whole region, but if someone DOES find that offensive, no matter who's saying it, I'd be interested in hearing about it myself. Now, southerners have in the past called northerners Yankees, but I've only ever heard it used insultingly by the very old, and even then it's been many years.

Personally I don't care much to have an EU Lounge. To me it fosters a sense of "us and them", and I've long wondered why there's any separation at all. People are mostly the same all over the world when it comes down to it, certainly when there's an over-arching subject on a forum. The German and French communities having a language-specific forum I can see for practicality, and the EU (and NA) servers obviously would contain info that pertains to that server. Mostly though it's just people BSing over topic du jour.

Is "no vowels" really an accent?

Hi Ultimus. If there's a Primal_EU I hope it's a she and hot, for balance.

I haven't really interpreted this thread as having any animosity to it. It's more like shaking our heads in bemusement at how people can speak essentially the same language yet eventually one will say, "Wait, what'd you say?" Happens within the same country even: people from Minnesota and Georgia are liable to boggle at the other, and I'm led to believe people from the south of England have differences from the north.

Fans of language (such as myself) usually find such discussions very interesting. Same reason I've occasionally bought the imported (UK) version of magazines like Stuff, or gone looking for overseas commercials on YouTube.

Btw, I say "y'all" a lot more than I have a reason to type it. Oh, the southern dialect, how much has been written. Consider the following sentence: "Dang gnats 'bout to tote me off!" "My goodness, how aggressive these pesky little black flies are today!"

Never fear, you are not alone in your facepalming. This very-Southern very-American has cringed mightily in the grocery store at hearing someone ask where the "Wor-ches-ter-shire" sauce might be found.

After clicking English (etc.) and you have the page listing everything, bookmark that page rather than the main one. These forums do not save your settings the same way as the others.

Click English to open it all up to your liking, then Bookmark that instead of the "main" page. Suggested in another thread, and it works, I just tried it myself. Of course, if you don't use bookmarks this won't help much, sad to say.