Cedar Point '07 Project

BANDandDCI no one thinks you are wrong, people think you are being an arrogent prick. You are right about the French grammer, but not when it comes to usuing French in English, a la is what is used for everything its just custom. Techincally using any French verb (since nouns tend to cross languages) is a faux pas but we Americans like to screw up our language and mess with others (this is called slang.) If you dont realize that you either havent been in America long enough, have shunned human society and only communicate via the internet, or do know about it but choose to correct people anyways to satisfy your inner desire to make yourself feel good by putting down other people.

I hope you can now understand why people are calling you out. *** Edited 9/4/2006 4:05:14 PM UTC by Touchdown***

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Touchdown said:
BANDandDCI no one thinks you are wrong, people think you are being an arrogent prick.

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Thank you.

umm yeah stop arguing about grammar and back to the rollercoaster come on people

point buzz has new pictures up here

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?a=539

Last reference to "the great a la incident of page 67" and then I'll drop out for another 10 or 20 pages. :)

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BANDandDCI said:
To end the french language issue, "a la" IS used, and it is french. Not english.

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But it's also English. It may be of French origin, but it's English. The great thing about the English language is the way it evolves and the way it borrows from other languages making words and phrases it's own.

In the English language the phrase 'a la' means 'in the manner of' - it's indisputable. You're flat out wrong.

However, you are right that it's also a French phrase that when used in the French language means nothing even close to what the English meaning is.

And as dannerman pointed out it's also used in the Spanish language with yet a third different meaning.

None of the meanings are wrong in their respective languages. But if you try to use the meanings across languages, you'll make little sense.

To sum up (and try to make everyone happy):

whoeverknew was entirely correct in his useage of the phrase and yet you're correct in saying that in French the phrase has an entirely different meaning.

But like others have pointed out, this is an English speaking board so the French useage has no relevance here.

Any word yet on what style of seating this ride will have? ;)

Actually I already know and I just wanted to post on page 69 of this thread. :)

^According to Screamscape it will be the Kinga Ka/Storm Runner OTSRs.

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Swoosh said:

Actually I already know

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So maybe you should just tell us.

Swoosh, I think it will have OTSR's a la Kingda Ka and Storm Runner. ;)

I've never ridden on an inverting Intamin. Nor have I been on an Intamin with OTSR's. Are the comfortable? Please describe.

actually stormrunner was pretty smooth to me... but i am a pretty small guy so i don't know how it is for the bigger dudes... but yeah the OSTR's are pretty snug and not a lot of head banging

I'm pretty small too so I hope I get the same results.

Im a big guy, very nice. Their OTSRs are basicly an lap bar that comes down with a very thin OTSR (so thin you can bend it with your hands if you grab that part when pulling it down.) There will be no earshots with them because they arent tall enough to reach from your sholder to your ear.

The only thing that sucks about them is that you have to pull them down/push them up with quite a bit of force due to the hydraulics controling them. *** Edited 9/4/2006 5:54:51 PM UTC by Touchdown***

at the end of maverick there is supposed to be an "exaggerated stengel dive"

a stengel dive is this:

http://mikuna.image.pbase.com/v3/94/439994/4/48244770.PICT0017.jpg

http://www.coasterforce.com/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/1663.jpg

but "exaggerated" how can you exaggerate that?

What about add another inversion?

http://www.rcdb.com/ig2498.htm?picture=8

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KAPrep9008 said:
at the end of maverick there is supposed to be an "exaggerated stengel dive"

but "exaggerated" how can you exaggerate that?

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What I believe they mean is from the looks of it, the 'Stengal Dive' is similar in style to the original Stengal Dive except more heavily banked, almost completely inverted. Instead of being banked around 120 degrees, from what I've heard, Maverick's will be banked around 160 degrees... almost completely inverted.

http://freizeitparkweb.de/cgi-bin/dcf/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=2533&forum=DCForumID39

Check It This Coaster Speed Monster im thinking the train is going to look a little something like that

Why is marketing a specific record such a bad thing? Simple marketing tactic for the general public. I don't see why CP is lambasted but people such as Neuski, or how the "fan boys" are trying to grasp for a record?

Coasters are marketed very similiar to other things, why is it considered ignorant on this site to understand the importance of record breaking features?

i dont think anyone was saying that i think people are just saying they would rather have an excellent well-rounded coaster over a record breaker that only has one good thing about it

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FTW said:
Why is marketing a specific record such a bad thing?

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It isn't, but there's a difference between building a good coaster that just happens to break a record, and building a coaster expressly for the purpose of breaking a record.

The annoyance comes from CP fan boys that can't tolerate the idea that this ride isn't going to break some sort of major record, as if that's something so awful. If you grasp at straws long enough virtually every coaster built breaks some sort of obscure record, you know?

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KAPrep9008 said:

Check It This Coaster Speed Monster im thinking the train is going to look a little something like that

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What do you mean? As in the themeing or the 3 car trains with OTSR's?