Think of the poor tourists and students from Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, forever asking directions to 'Bright-chester'.
"Oh, you mean Britster?"
"No, it says 'Bright-chester'"
"Yes, that's Britster, love."
Willow Creek resident stares. "But where did all the consonants go?"
"Wales took them all. Sorry."
Think of the poor tourists and students from Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, forever asking directions to 'Bright-chester'.
"Oh, you mean Britster?"
"No, it says 'Bright-chester'"
"Yes, that's Britster, love."
Willow Creek resident stares. "But where did all the consonants go?"
"Wales took them all. Sorry."
Ha, sounds like a small village near me. No one beyond a 20 mile radius or so knows how to pronounce it.
I have a son at Bristol University and the world in this pack reminds me SO much of that place, it's totally awesome. In fact, one of the set-dressing streets looks almost exactly the same as where his accommodation was last year.
The Universities remind me of two universities in Glasgow - Foxbury is like Strathclyde (where I went!) with more modern architecture and the stairs....Britechester is so University of Glasgow...especially the quad.
I asked for a UK setting a long time ago in Ideas and Feedback and am so happy they did this. All we want now is some empty worlds like Newcrest but with different country settings and I'll be very, very happy! I'd love another empty UK, Japan or China or Africa.
I can see why they put some not UK stuff in. I wouldn't be surprised if we got Cheerleaders over here eventually as we seem to copy everything else from the USA. We've got some groups already over here.
Think of the poor tourists and students from Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, forever asking directions to 'Bright-chester'.
"Oh, you mean Britster?"
"No, it says 'Bright-chester'"
"Yes, that's Britster, love."
Willow Creek resident stares. "But where did all the consonants go?"
"Wales took them all. Sorry."
I've been thinking this since the place was first mentioned.
Think of the poor tourists and students from Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, forever asking directions to 'Bright-chester'.
"Oh, you mean Britster?"
"No, it says 'Bright-chester'"
"Yes, that's Britster, love."
Willow Creek resident stares. "But where did all the consonants go?"
"Wales took them all. Sorry."
This had me in hysterics
When I first moved to the Worcestershire area, I remember my work colleagues having hysterics when I said Leominster as Leo-min-ster instead of Lemster rofl. I never did live that down.
Think of the poor tourists and students from Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, forever asking directions to 'Bright-chester'.
"Oh, you mean Britster?"
"No, it says 'Bright-chester'"
"Yes, that's Britster, love."
Willow Creek resident stares. "But where did all the consonants go?"
"Wales took them all. Sorry."
This had me in hysterics
When I first moved to the Worcestershire area, I remember my work colleagues having hysterics when I said Leominster as Leo-min-ster instead of Lemster rofl. I never did live that down.
I'm one of those people who tends to mispronounce words because I generally only read them - I don't see a lot of films and so forth. Place names are the worst - if I don't already know how a place in Britain is pronounced, I'll look it up if it looks fishy.
Having studied in both Boston and the UK, from my perspective it feels about 70% British and about 30% like Cambridge (Harvard/MIT). (Based purely on the trailer and livestream, as I haven't purchased it yet.)
quote="zekrayat;c-17317486"]It's definitely England. Asides from the architecture, the cars drive on the left!
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We're still in Feudal times here. I was told that the French aristocracy when they drove carriages on the roads forced the peasants over to the right hand side, so after the Revolution the peasants revolted to travel on the right and Bonaparte put it into law. We didn't have a Revolution! In other countries it depended on the type of transport used, which stuck the side they went on.
To me it reminds me of my hometown Boston/Cambridge and the two Universities could be Harvard and MIT. But to be fair Boston is in New England and it is probably one of the most European-like cities in the U.S., so both could be true.
And so, while such architecture is found in British universities, they are also stateside as well.
It's found in Aussie land too.
Syd-ogworts
'Ogworts of Sydney-side, part two
Melb-bin it.
Radelaide school of witchcraft, mockery and loitering.
Seems to be what you end up with, when your uni was built in the 1800's, or earlier.
I suppose if you have benevolently donated all the money to build them you want it to be noticed! I believe it's called "Collegiate Gothic" just waiting for bits to fall off now as too expensive to maintain!
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"Oh, you mean Britster?"
"No, it says 'Bright-chester'"
"Yes, that's Britster, love."
Willow Creek resident stares. "But where did all the consonants go?"
"Wales took them all. Sorry."
Ha, sounds like a small village near me. No one beyond a 20 mile radius or so knows how to pronounce it.
Thank you, EA, it is wonderful
I can see why they put some not UK stuff in. I wouldn't be surprised if we got Cheerleaders over here eventually as we seem to copy everything else from the USA. We've got some groups already over here.
I've been thinking this since the place was first mentioned.
When I first moved to the Worcestershire area, I remember my work colleagues having hysterics when I said Leominster as Leo-min-ster instead of Lemster rofl. I never did live that down.
There's Yale:
Brown University:
Haaavaaahd:
Princeton even has fortification towers in what I assume to be a precaution against a siege by the University of Pennsylvania:
And so, while such architecture is found in British universities, they are also stateside as well.
I'm one of those people who tends to mispronounce words because I generally only read them - I don't see a lot of films and so forth. Place names are the worst - if I don't already know how a place in Britain is pronounced, I'll look it up if it looks fishy.
quote="zekrayat;c-17317486"]It's definitely England. Asides from the architecture, the cars drive on the left!
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We're still in Feudal times here. I was told that the French aristocracy when they drove carriages on the roads forced the peasants over to the right hand side, so after the Revolution the peasants revolted to travel on the right and Bonaparte put it into law. We didn't have a Revolution! In other countries it depended on the type of transport used, which stuck the side they went on.
It's found in Aussie land too.
Syd-ogworts
'Ogworts of Sydney-side, part two
Melb-bin it.
Radelaide school of witchcraft, mockery and loitering.
Seems to be what you end up with, when your uni was built in the 1800's, or earlier.
I suppose if you have benevolently donated all the money to build them you want it to be noticed! I believe it's called "Collegiate Gothic" just waiting for bits to fall off now as too expensive to maintain!
It's modern (ish) universities that have their design influenced by the buildings in medieval universities.