A must have! Zebra crossings!

Airion wrote:
OMG, really? They're CALLED zebra crossing because THEY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE STRIPES! No actual zebras are involved!

Yup its that simple :)

subii42 wrote:

Airion wrote:
OMG, really? They're CALLED zebra crossing because THEY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE STRIPES! No actual zebras are involved!

Yup its that simple :)

I'm feeling it got unnecessarily complicated.

All of your ideas are good! However, you'd think basic stuff like traffic lights and "zebra crossings" would have been one of the first things added to the game. Someone mentioned that the characters could cross at the traffic lights and that was what I was thinking! :-D

Not so keen on the idea of traffic as it would make low end devices not be able to cope and the frame rate would drop for a lot of people. That could cause some anger in the community and we would have 100s of threads complaining about lag as well as those wheel threads! ;-)

Airion wrote:
OMG, really? They're CALLED zebra crossing because THEY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE STRIPES! No actual zebras are involved!

Yeah, but it's a potentially confusing term to Americans who have never heard it, plus it's easy to make jokes about.

I dont understand the deer xing sign is the deer chinese of origin or does the deer tastse funny, like a bit zingy??

neuroheart wrote:

Airion wrote:
OMG, really? They're CALLED zebra crossing because THEY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE STRIPES! No actual zebras are involved!

Yeah, but it's a potentially confusing term to Americans who have never heard it, plus it's easy to make jokes about.

Google is your friend. There's even a picture of one on the first page! And they have them in NY, so I just assumed that the rest of the country would have them to. That might not be what the local populace call them, but they're there nonetheless.

rodgethdodge wrote:
I dont understand the deer xing sign is the deer chinese of origin or does the deer tastse funny, like a bit zingy??

X as in 'cross'. Deer CROSSing.

I think I need a lay down.

Airion wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

Airion wrote:
OMG, really? They're CALLED zebra crossing because THEY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE STRIPES! No actual zebras are involved!

Yeah, but it's a potentially confusing term to Americans who have never heard it, plus it's easy to make jokes about.

Google is your friend. There's even a picture of one on the first page! And they have them in NY, so I just assumed that the rest of the country would have them to. That might not be what the local populace call them, but they're there nonetheless.
...I think I need to lay down

You're stressing yourself out over nothing, here. Do you really need me to break this down for you?

In the U.S. we call them crosswalks or pedestrian crossings. We also have deer crossings. It's an easy leap for an American to make that when you say "(blank) crossing" you're talking about a place where (blank) crosses the street. Therefore, it's rich fodder for jokes, even for those who do know what it's actually supposed to mean.
I happen to know a lot of English terms because I've made friends with several people there and watch a lot of BBC shows, so I knew what you meant, but I was also perplexed the first time I heard the term "zebra crossing" because, well, it sounded like a place for zebras to cross the street.
Of course we have them, we have them all over the place, but no one who grew up here is going to call them zebra crossings. No one. Any more than you would refer to a fringe as "bangs," which is what we call it. Do you google every American colloquialism you see? Do you even immediately know that it's a colloquialism?
(Also, most people here were joking, because to us it sounds like a pretty funny term. Seriously.)

neuroheart wrote:

Airion wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

Airion wrote:
OMG, really? They're CALLED zebra crossing because THEY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE STRIPES! No actual zebras are involved!

Yeah, but it's a potentially confusing term to Americans who have never heard it, plus it's easy to make jokes about.

Google is your friend. There's even a picture of one on the first page! And they have them in NY, so I just assumed that the rest of the country would have them to. That might not be what the local populace call them, but they're there nonetheless.
...I think I need to lay down

You're stressing yourself out over nothing, here. Do you really need me to break this down for you?

In the U.S. we call them crosswalks or pedestrian crossings. We also have deer crossings. It's an easy leap for an American to make that when you say "(blank) crossing" you're talking about a place where (blank) crosses the street. Therefore, it's rich fodder for jokes, even for those who do know what it's actually supposed to mean.
I happen to know a lot of English terms because I've made friends with several people there and watch a lot of BBC shows, so I knew what you meant, but I was also perplexed the first time I heard the term "zebra crossing" because, well, it sounded like a place for zebras to cross the street.
Of course we have them, we have them all over the place, but no one who grew up here is going to call them zebra crossings. No one. Any more than you would refer to a fringe as "bangs," which is what we call it. Do you google every American colloquialism you see? Do you even immediately know that it's a colloquialism?
(Also, most people here were joking, because to us it sounds like a pretty funny term. Seriously.)

I understand almost all American colloquialisms I come across due to being half American, having all-American brothers and sisters and generally spending a good chunk of my life there. Not to mention all the American TV shows shown in the UK. But if I don't understand or know something I come across, yes, I Google it. It's common sense.

Airion wrote:

I understand almost all American colloquialisms I come across due to being half American, having all-American brothers and sisters and generally spending a good chunk of my life there.

And with all this, you never heard or saw "pedestrian crossing" (ped xing) or "crosswalk."

Airion wrote:
But if I don't understand or know something I come across, yes, I Google it. It's common sense.

Yet you couldn't google "American word for zebra crossing." :roll: That's pretty funny.

We call them zebra crossings in Australia, too.