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Math is fun (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 90 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Americans will invent a fantasy world, give a character a Scottish accent but still set the drinking age to 21.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Uhhh it's pretty typical for dwarves to sound vaguely Scottish isn't it

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    That's always irked me. Dwarves are a Germanic myth. They should have Germanic accents.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    At one of my LARPs, we use German for Dwarvish. Given that somehow, Dwarves are a niche race, German language proficiency doesn't come into play with a frequency that would, say, make accents relevant. However, in discussions with someone who is quite linguistically and culturally in tune with German speakers, we now can't agree on whether we'd have the accent be Swiss, Austrian, Bavarian or Ruhr German

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Maybe 21 <=> 100 is just the easiest cross over point between the two age scales. Its easier to remember than 18 <=> 85.5 or 16 <=> 76.2 so that's where they start. They arrive at an equivalent age of 15 and deem that to young. No information was ever given about what the age of legal drinking is. Just that it is older than 15.

    Also dwarven ale might be straight schnaps with 80% alcohol for all we know. Don't want 16 year olds drinking that even if you think beer is fine.

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