[Slow Ben]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 08 October 2009 - 07:46 PM, said:

Slow Ben, on 08 October 2009 - 07:40 PM, said:

So, whilst reading Harry Potter i've been pronouncing it wrong in my head the whole time!

Interesting.

The whole thing?

I've actually found a few words on here i was reading wrong. Row, whinging, etc.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

come to think of it me too.

[HoosierDaddy]

Yeah, I thought it was pronounced like "row" your boat for a long time... oh well, not really a correct use in American-English anyway.

Also, vodka.

[Cougar]

There is one language, it's called English, we all speak it. There are regional variations in slang, pronunciation and spelling. There is no such thing as US or UK English. Just English.

It's not like the distinction between the versions of Spanish. It's totally acceptable to spell a word in two different ways in the same language, or have two different words for the same thing without having to make such a pointless distinction (fucking Microsoft with their electronic imperialism).

[Hinter]

Back on topic - I made a perfect hollandaise sauce last night

Cougar - you should know better

[Cougar]

It makes me happy to point out how pointless it is, it's not an anti-US thing, it's an anti-pointless bullshit thing.

[HoosierDaddy]

And yet, say it here or use it in an academic paper here... not pointless anymore is it? Acceptable there, not here. Unless you think all the academics over there would think it's okay to start taking out the "u"s in humour, colour, and whatever else is spelled that way.

How to tell when using one variation over another... how about distinguishing them by the region in which that variation is being used? Grand idea, that!

Don't you all have concepts like the "Queen's English" anyways? As opposed to less proper forms?

Bah. No more rowing about American-English. Microsoft has settled the issue.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 09 October 2009 - 05:20 PM

[Slow Ben]

"I thought this country spawned the fucking language, so far nobody seems to speak it."

Its interesting because we dont use those words.




I get this afternoon off!

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Bon weekend!

[Loki]

Zombies

I even have them in board game form now

[Ain't_It_Just_]

What is it with you and zombies, Loki...

Headbanging to some totally schweet music.

[Mentalist]

UKRAINE'S GOT A TICKET TO WORLD CUP PLAYOFFS!!!!!

oh, and it's my b-day, Isuppose i'm also happy about that,

[HoosierDaddy]

And the Yanks are going to South Africa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Puck]

Got some pretty cool books - among them some I've been looking for - FOR FREE! They're old and need a bit of dusting off but that's in no way diminishing the awesomeness

This post has been edited by Puck: 11 October 2009 - 12:30 PM

[Slow Ben]

Donuts, glorious donuts!

[Cougar]

HoosierDaddy, on 09 October 2009 - 05:06 PM, said:

And yet, say it here or use it in an academic paper here... not pointless anymore is it? Acceptable there, not here. Unless you think all the academics over there would think it's okay to start taking out the "u"s in humour, colour, and whatever else is spelled that way.

How to tell when using one variation over another... how about distinguishing them by the region in which that variation is being used? Grand idea, that!

Don't you all have concepts like the "Queen's English" anyways? As opposed to less proper forms?

Bah. No more rowing about American-English. Microsoft has settled the issue.

I spend all day, every day bar the odd weekend reading scholarly articles and books, the US scholars use Zs were there should be Ss, miss out the letter U, use words like fall, that don't mean anything to the British and it doesn't stop me understanding them, the point I'm making is that it's nonsensecal to draw a difference between the two when I have to write articles etc which have to take in to account literature from all over the anglophone world. For example a few years ago I was writing a long-ish piece about the Kulturkampf and the German centre party. All the literature coming put of the US said Center Party, everything else said Centre Party and it became annoying as hell trying to produce consistent work when I had to use 2 different spellings one of which my machine constantly tol me was wrong.

I just don't think it would be any skin off our noses to allow 2 spellings in the same document.

And no, Queens English, is just slang and it's really what we'd call 'RP' and as such is an accent not really a way of spelling.

This post has been edited by Cougar: 11 October 2009 - 03:37 PM

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Even the Queen doesn't actually speak Queen's English, apparently.

[Macros]

arrested development free on msn.
how have i not seent his show before?!!!

[Darkwatch]

It's SNOWING!

[Centzon Totochtin]

Awesome weekend! I got a borders voucher from one of the ladies at work to thank me for working with her, then went for a 60 minute massage (which was awesome but it felt like my back had been punched for the rest of the weekend), snoozed at home, went to a LAN, slept on a tiny couch that my head and back only just fitted on, went home next day, then went shopping and paid off my courset and got and awesome matching skirt, then cooked for 6 hours, fell asleep at 12:30 while the last of my stuff was simmering, woke up an hour later to find it nicely simmered then went to bed properly, finished off making my lasagne in the morning, went to play DnD for 8 hours, and everyone liked my lasagne.

So I am now lacking sleep and worn out but AWESOME weekend was had