14-08-2003 21:09									#31
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Why should we listen to spelling instructions from doofuses who drive on the wrong side of the road?

	14-08-2003 23:17									#32
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quote: "colour" and all it's other "u happy o words" are far too french to be american.

Well considering that the Americans, when immigrating, adore a tall lady from France, I think that the Americans fraternise far too much with the French.

At least the British can claim to have successfully engaged the French. The Americans can hardly ruffle the French danders.

quote: Why should we listen to spelling instructions from doofuses who drive on the wrong side of the road?

Yes, we should all retain the customs of Mother Britain and denounce the ungrateful corrupt colonies.

	15-08-2003 00:25									#33
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quote: Why should we listen to spelling instructions from doofuses who drive on the wrong side of the road?

Cos if you dont, we'll revoke the declaration of independence!!

	15-08-2003 01:17									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Sandman as it stands they've just made English more diffcult to learn.

Oh like the King's English is any easier for an immigrant to pick up!

	15-08-2003 01:56									#35
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Why do Brits have to diss American English? All languages (except french) evolve over time. In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other.

	15-08-2003 01:58									#36
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quote: Originally posted by elijah Cos if you dont, we'll revoke the declaration of independence!!

BRING IT ON!

	15-08-2003 01:58									#37
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Hey guess what . . . . .

Americans are citizens of a world power, so we don't give a rat's *ss for European bastardized spelling.

	15-08-2003 02:00									#38
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quote: Originally posted by Odin Why do Brits have to diss American English? All languages (except french) evolve over time. In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other.

Not soon enough, imho.

	15-08-2003 02:18									#39
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American English has been very different from British English and was deliberately codified to be different following the revolutionary war. They wanted to show their Independence by developing their own dictionaries where words were deliberately spelled differently just to give the finger to Parliment who was passing laws demanding the British spelling be the only acceptable spellings.

	15-08-2003 02:20									#40
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it's ebonics, man... it's all cool

	15-08-2003 02:28									#41
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quote: In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other

Pretty much the case now

	15-08-2003 02:28									#42
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quote: Originally posted by Odin Why do Brits have to diss American English? All languages (except french) evolve over time. In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other.

'a thousand years'?!?

	15-08-2003 02:30									#43
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Just 500 years ago Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland were all one country with one king. The Finns spoke there own language but the other four all spoke the same language or at least the nobility did.

	15-08-2003 02:39									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Just 500 years ago Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland were all one country with one king. The Finns spoke there own language but the other four all spoke the same language or at least the nobility did.

And at present time, the people in Copenhagen doesn't understand us danes in the southern part of Denmark

	15-08-2003 02:40									#45
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quote: Yes, we should all retain the customs of Mother Britain and denounce the ungrateful corrupt colonies

Damn straight!!! *elijah hums rule brittania and escapes into glorious fantasies of empire while still drunk enough to forget that he is the biggest anti-patriot ever*

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Hey Elijah, I got some duct tape for ya . . . . .

	15-08-2003 02:42									#47
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MrFun:

	15-08-2003 02:43									#48
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	15-08-2003 02:48									#49
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quote: Originally posted by elijah MrFun:

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I try.... what can I say?

	16-08-2003 01:16									#51
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man, those britishers really have something stuck up their collective craws, mm?

we'll just let them think they're spelling things correctly. it's pretty much all they have left, anyway, their "honor".

	16-08-2003 01:48									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Just 500 years ago Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland were all one country with one king. The Finns spoke there own language but the other four all spoke the same language or at least the nobility did.

yeah of course the Scandinavians didnt have Hollywood movies, BBC dramas on PBS, the Internet, etc. We've read each others novels and poetry for the last 2 hundred years, followed each others movies and tv since those media were born, theyve followed our pop songs since the 1920's, we've followed theirs since the 1960's. Today we read each others newspapers, and are intimately familiar with the slants of each others news networks. Increasingly we are even familiar with eachs others slang.

There is zero, repeat zero chance of the written language ever moving apart . There is almost zero chance of the spoken language moving apart.

Hope everyone take this in good humour. Dont fly off the handle. Eat your French Fries, whatever their color.

	16-08-2003 03:20									#53
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I demand that "colour" be added as a valid synonym of "color" to the W3C specs.

	16-08-2003 03:40									#54
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By they way, why do you guys pronounce "Theatre" "Theater"? Don't you know with the "-tre" it would be pronounced "Theatree"?

	16-08-2003 03:45									#55
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo I demand that "colour" be added as a valid synonym of "color" to the W3C specs.

did you read about the kernel patch that changes every instance of "colour" to color?

	16-08-2003 03:52									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Uber KruX well, for starters it's really "über", which is so german french men pee themselves at the sight of it.

	16-08-2003 04:21									#57
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quote: Originally posted by Lonestar By they way, why do you guys pronounce "Theatre" "Theater"? Don't you know with the "-tre" it would be pronounced "Theatree"?

BTW, "metre" as in "kilometre" is pronounced differently from "meter" as in "odometer".

	16-08-2003 05:33									#59
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They are different words, eh.

	16-08-2003 05:49									#60
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Hey, if you want to harass anybody about messing up the language... you MIGHT want to start with the Jamaicans....