Teaching the Civil War, 150 Years Later...THE MEGATHREAD

[Admiral Yi]

Min-yawn.

Froid.

[Viking]

min-eh

[Admiral Yi]

min-eh

Chaud! :woot:

[Slargos]

min-uh? 

[dps]

Worst case scenario for the Union at Gettysburg:  the Confederates win a minor tactical victory on the first day, and the Army of the Potomoc withdraws to Pipe Creek.

[Admiral Yi]

Minie is three syllables.  Min ee eh.  Captain Minie had an accent above the e in his name.

[Slargos]

Minie is three syllables.  Min ee eh.  Captain Minie had an accent above the e in his name.

You're technically correct, but every resource I've dug up on the subject claims two.

From my limited french, I know that the trailing E is pronounced when accented, so it would suggest three... a modern mystery. 

I would've said Min-i-é but the dictionary claims Min-é.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/minie%20ball

[Admiral Yi]

You're technically correct, but every resource I've dug up on the subject claims two.

From my limited french, I know that the trailing E is pronounced when accented, so it would suggest three... a modern mystery. 

I would've said Min-i-é but the dictionary claims Min-é.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/minie%20ball

[Slargos]

Oh, you're still doing the not-talking thing, even on such an innocent subject like this? 

Fine. You're growing cranky with age, man.

[Razgovory]

For a while there, I thought we were playing a game where we make up words.

[Admiral Yi]

Oh, you're still doing the not-talking thing, even on such an innocent subject like this? 

Fine. You're growing cranky with age, man.

My smilie was intended as a small gesture of reconciliation.  But since you responded in typical Slag Rot berserker fashion that policy does not appear promising.

[Slargos]

Oh, you're still doing the not-talking thing, even on such an innocent subject like this? 

Fine. You're growing cranky with age, man.

My smilie was intended as a small gesture of reconciliation.  But since you responded in typical Slag Rot berserker fashion that policy does not appear promising.

Chillax, dude. You are only witnessing the dangers inherent in the over-use of emoticons with the presumption that they also magically convey our intention with no risk of signal decay or misinterpretation. 

[Razgovory]

Incidentally I've been playing Sid Meier's Gettysburg! recently.  Playing a random scenario I captured every Rebel regiment but one, and all the batteries but one.  Admittedly I did outnumber the enemy two to one in infantry and something like four to one in artillery.

[Ed Anger]

Incidentally I've been playing Sid Meier's Gettysburg! recently.  Playing a random scenario I captured every Rebel regiment but one, and all the batteries but one.  Admittedly I did outnumber the enemy two to one in infantry and something like four to one in artillery.

I'm thinking of digging AGEOD's Civil War out and playing the crackers. mew.

[CountDeMoney]

The first day was bad luck.  The second day was *this* close.  There was going to be no talking Lee out of the attack on the third day. Absolutely no way, no matter how much Longstreet counselled against it.

The South was not close to winning that battle on Day 1 or Day 2. Day 1 went about as well as could be hoped for the South, they broke the Unions initial positions and forced them back through the town.

Day 2 saw them getting some pretty huge breaks, and the only reason they did as well as they did was some pretty stupid decisions on the part of some of the Union commanders. Even at that, the "crisis" of Day 2 is largely over-stated.

I was writing from my interpretation of Lee's perspective.  But we all know about your grasp for nuance.  NUANCE SMASH