What is wrong with what Steorn is doing?

Aepervius said:
...not udnerstanding dutch, but still a bit due to familiarity with german...
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I cannot read or speak Dutch but I can understand it because my parents spoke Dutch at home. I once had a German school mate and one day he took me over to his place. Whilst we were messing about, his parents kept talking to each other in German. They were totally unaware that I could understand every single word that they were saying about me. :mad:

(In fact it was their son who was a terrible influence on me - but that's another story!)
 
Looks like steorn will be releasing some more info and a jury update on April, friday the 13th.

P.S.
Feel free to drop your "friday the 13th" quips below.
 
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(Just dropping my friday the thirteenth quip)
 
BillyJoe said:
I cannot read or speak Dutch but I can understand it because my parents spoke Dutch at home. I once had a German school mate and one day he took me over to his place. Whilst we were messing about, his parents kept talking to each other in German. They were totally unaware that I could understand every single word that they were saying about me. :mad:
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Err... maybe I do not understand you correctly, but German is not Dutch, although some words look alike.
 
They sound enough alike to understand the meaning.

...or perhaps I was feeling paranoid at the time. :(
 
Looks like there's a few steorn updates addressing various "it's fake" theories. And it looks like the friday update will contain some sort of video interview.
 
Background: I've played an online turn-based nation building game called NationStates for a number of years. I don't usually visit the forums so I can't speak as to the quality of the membership there. That being said...

The thrust of my post: On my nations' (yes I have more than one) homepage they show the last few threads that have been posted to in their forums. Imagine my surprise when I see Steorn mentioned. So I glanced at it. Supposedly, one of the posters has had dialogues with Steorn and was able to do a Q&A session with them posing questions from the NationStates forum community. Most of the thread looked like cruft, but page three had some meat.

Note: I didn't read it real close, but glancing at it looked passingly of interest to this thread.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=523589&page=3
 
There's a Q&A with the CEO of Steorn (Sean) in which he addresses a few interesting issues. Nothing really new, but a few implications you may be interested in reading.

Click here for the Q&A
 
BillyJoe said:
They sound enough alike to understand the meaning.

...or perhaps I was feeling paranoid at the time. :(
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Well, German and Dutch ('Dutch' comes from 'Duits' which means 'German' in Dutch :)) have a common ground, that's why many words are almost the same...
 
The inhabitants of Holland prefer the word Nederlandsch for their language and either Holland or Nederland (The Netherlands) for their country. The Dutch or Duits were in fact, what is now known as, Germans, and their language was called Deutsch. However, confusion between the germans and their neighbours resulted in the name being misapplied. To avoid further confusion, the original country was renamed Germany
The bloody English were responsible for this balls-up
 
BillyJoe said:
The inhabitants of Holland prefer the word Nederlandsch for their language and either Holland or Nederland (The Netherlands) for their country. The Dutch or Duits were in fact, what is now known as, Germans, and their language was called Deutsch. However, confusion between the germans and their neighbours resulted in the name being misapplied. To avoid further confusion, the original country was renamed Germany
The bloody English were responsible for this balls-up
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In fact 'Holland' refers to the 17th century name of The Netherlands. 'Holland' nowadays is nothing more than a province or county. The original language from which Dutch, Belgian, English and German were derived was WestGerman. The dialects Saxian, Frankish and English were much alike.
 
Snadert said:
In fact 'Holland' refers to the 17th century name of The Netherlands. 'Holland' nowadays is nothing more than a province or county.
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The Netherlands (Nederland) became known as such sometime during the 1500s. It consisted of 17 provinces. Of these, 7 together were known as Holland. In the mid 1800s, Holland was split into two - North Holland and South Holland. At present there is actually no province called Holland. However, then as now, the name Holland is often extended to the whole country. Hence their festivals are usually called Holland Festival. They aslo refer to themselves as the Dutch. However their language is more commonly called Hollandsch or Nederlandsch. The Dutch name for Germany is Deutschland.

It's all very confusing.
In fact I am not totally sure I have got this all right any more.
 
I thought he was pretty straight forward, nothing really new except maybe 22 jurers instead of 12, but serious, it could be 200 and until we actually something from the jury, it doesn't mean much.

I guess we'll see something on july 7th, hopefully more than just a distant view from a camera.
 
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