Jargon
I hate it when military dudes in media talk like that.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ^^ Nice… I don’t know how I feel that, on one hand it can be overdone to an annoying degree, but it would be weird if a group of soldiers never used their jargon.
Haha. I know the jargon exists for a reason. It’s more like I usually don’t care about movies or games featuring soldiers. A pet peeve of mine.
I played a lot of strategies in my day, which do feature soldiers, although unlike modern shooters they didn’t feature too much jargon since they were not yet trying for gritty realism (well except Act of War direct action, but that’s an awesome game anyway) I think I would be more annoyed if they did a half assed job (such as using the jargon incorrectly or grossly misrepresenting military procedures etc.), I mean if you want to go for gritty realism at least read the damn Wikipedia, jeez.
If there’s something companies want to portray accurately, it’s military shit. Computer science, on the other hand…
What? You mean you DON’T use keyboard for everything? Not even when zooming onto a guy’s face reflected in a rain drop in photo taken with an old cell phone from 3 kilometers away?
Also ANYTHING involving video games, from playing to making is bound to be so inaccurate one has to wonder if TV writer ever played one…
Oh man. Don’t start me. T_
If you want nothing but paragraphs of jargon, I highly recommend listening to any Air Traffic Controller tapes for John F. Kennedy airport in New York City that are posted in the internet. As a native-born English speaking Canuck, the scariest thing is I can better understand the English coming from the Air China pilots than the Bronx Boys in the Tower !
Let’s watch the Airplaine! movie
There’s actually a Youtube video where it is obvious that the ATC’s at kennedy not only have seen Airplane! as much as the rest of us, but they also run into pilots with the first name of “Clarance” far too often…