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crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Jan-19-2006 00:47

ummm k. i really hope this is the place to talk about anything related to SLEUTH, like the sign said, cuz this is pretty random.

anyhow -with all due respect to the maker's efforts to maintain the feeling of the time period being reproduced- it strikes me as funny that in the 8 or so weeks that i've been playing this game, i have NEVER encountered ANYONE named either john or mary

and yet on the other hand I am routinely interrogating people named like Girish Yelverton.

*goes back in time to the roaring twenties and prevents and angry hood wearing mob from harrassing the union of a south asian lass with a very WASPy-type gentleman*

hee hee go periodicy.

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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-19-2006 12:50

Criminals hide everywhere. :)

AZN Cinderella
AZN Cinderella

Jan-19-2006 18:04

No offense to anyone but why can't cacasian people tell the difference between Chinese names?

Elka
Elka
Well-Connected

Jan-19-2006 19:25

I've always wondered that AZN... I know people who say they don't like Shanghai because the names are so difficult.

Colonel Shanty
Colonel Shanty

Jan-19-2006 19:40

I love Shanghai. I don't mind the names. I used to criticize Delhi, but that's over. They are all difficult names, but I got used to them. Who can't tell the difference between Bing Qing and Yao-Shih?

Lady Emerald Devon
Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad

Jan-19-2006 21:42

Oh Shanty.
Sometimes.
*shakes her head*

Lady Emerald Devon
Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad

Jan-19-2006 21:51

What people mean, is that there is sometimes only one letter difference and when you're tired you click on the wrong name.
Also, it's the whole familarity thing right? People might not be familar with such combanations of letters or names so, it's harder for our brains to process.
And I don't think it's an Asian/Caucasian thing.
When I started Gaelic Football, everyone looked the same and as for their names well...


jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-20-2006 04:46

First of all, am i seeing a different game then everybody else? My suspects avatar in Shanghi still all look caucasian to me.

Second of all, I would agree that in Shanghi that there is a difficulty in the names for the two reasons LED mentioned. In Shanghi our brain needs to start operating like that of a dyslexic person, reading all letters of a name, instead of looking at the word as a whole.

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jan-20-2006 05:30

Mmm that's right, it's a proven fact that in the majority of cases as long as you have the first letter and the last letter of a 'familiar' word the order of the rest of the letters doesn't matter as out brain unjumbles them for us [you can Google that if u like to check] Wlel in tehory aynawy :s So names, unfamilar ones especially cause us the most cognitive problems... hence my recent late debacle with Ananda and Amanda Goforth :s

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-20-2006 09:14

Heheh, like your det name. :)

ichiban
ichiban
Well-Connected

Jan-25-2006 04:42


Secret_Squirrel Not in theory but -"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig huh?"


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