Moving along...

[Choinski, Burton]

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Burton Choinski
Principle Software Engineer, Quality Engineering
email: burton.choinski at matrixone.com

phone: 978-322-2135
fax  : 978-452-5764

MatrixOne, Inc.
Two Executive Drive
Chelmsford, Ma 01824
www.matrixone.com

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|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Wout Broere [mailto:broere at POWERSANDPERILS.ORG]
|| Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:39 PM
|| To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at GEO.CITG.TUDELFT.NL
|| Subject: Re: Moving along...
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|| At 08:06 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
|| >I do not like the Fluency-80 modifier on IC however...I'm
|| going to have to
|| >dig up the language effects table from my old RuneQuest
|| books and make a
|| >variant (will be posted here when done).
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|| It has been a while, but I did dig up my RQ books, and found
|| the infamous
|| table.
|| Attached as a format that some will despise. And included
|| below in what
|| seems to me will become an html-formatted message body as
|| soon as I hit the
|| send button. O tempore ...
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|| Well, as Burton has already found out, I have little time at
|| the moment, so
|| this rather 'orrible formatting will have to do. I love this
|| table btw.
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|| Ft
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|| Language Proficiency Table
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|| Roll D100 Result
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|| 01-10   May only communicate simple ideas like "I want food."
|| 11-30   May get across simple requests and live daytoday in
|| the native
|| country of the language speakers. "How many moneys for leg of lamb?"
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|| 31-50   Assured communication. One can speak better than a
|| stupid native
|| (most stupid natives will be 30%!) and get most ideas
|| across. "But that was
|| only three coppers yesterday."
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|| 51-80   Allows one to tell stories, sagas, songs, etc. Can argue and
|| bargain as well as any native speaker. "That lamb was rotten
|| before it was
|| butchered, and it never was worth the spit it took to hit the tax
|| collector's eye last month."
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|| 81-100  This is the language of poets, philosophers,
|| leaders, diplomats,
|| emissaries and others who aspire to a fluent grasp of the
|| nation's speech.
|| "Surely the assessment for this specimen of decomposing
|| provender could be
|| reevaluated in consideration of its advanced state of putrefaction."
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|| Wout Broere             broere at powersandperils.org
|| P&P Website:            http://www.powersandperils.org/  or
||                          http://geo.citg.tudelft.nl/broere/pnp/
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