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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:42 am
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IamredMage Driinex_the_Flower_Child Alrighty then. I'm Dutch, so this whole English or American thing is really strange. I spell some words the English way and I spell some the American way. Frankly I don't think it matters wether you spell it colour or color. It all depends on if you're writing a paper, or a letter to a friend, or a book or story. Take it from someone on the gray end of the black and white spectrum. IT DOES NOT MATTER. IT MEANS THE SAME EXACT FROGGING THING. There. I've said my peice and I'm leaving now. Yeah, but sometimes (excuse me whilst I slip this amazing phraze in again somewhere...), in american context, English becomes so butchered (Oh, yeah, I knew I'd find a place for it somewhere...) that to a person who's taught english english from a young age, it becomes almost unrecognisable. You should have seen me the first time I heard an american refer to something as 'in back of' something else. My brain hurt for weeks...
I think you may be confusing American with Southern dialect. Forgive me for saying this, but people from places like Louisiana and Mississippi and Georgia say things totally different than people would in New York, Montana, Texas, or California. Believe me, I know. I'm a grad student with a major in foreign languages. And coming from Holland, everything sounds slightly weird from the version of English I was taught. But as far as I know, only uneducated people, not Americans, refer to things as 'in back of'. And feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, which I'm sure you are going to try to do anyway, but isn't the whole 'ae' spelling originally Latin in the first place? In my opinion, the American way to spell certian words is a lot simpler. Except for theatre. I like spelling it that way.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:38 am
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Driinex_the_Flower_Child IamredMage Driinex_the_Flower_Child Alrighty then. I'm Dutch, so this whole English or American thing is really strange. I spell some words the English way and I spell some the American way. Frankly I don't think it matters wether you spell it colour or color. It all depends on if you're writing a paper, or a letter to a friend, or a book or story. Take it from someone on the gray end of the black and white spectrum. IT DOES NOT MATTER. IT MEANS THE SAME EXACT FROGGING THING. There. I've said my peice and I'm leaving now. Yeah, but sometimes (excuse me whilst I slip this amazing phraze in again somewhere...), in american context, English becomes so butchered (Oh, yeah, I knew I'd find a place for it somewhere...) that to a person who's taught english english from a young age, it becomes almost unrecognisable. You should have seen me the first time I heard an american refer to something as 'in back of' something else. My brain hurt for weeks... I think you may be confusing American with Southern dialect. Forgive me for saying this, but people from places like Louisiana and Mississippi and Georgia say things totally different than people would in New York, Montana, Texas, or California. Believe me, I know. I'm a grad student with a major in foreign languages. And coming from Holland, everything sounds slightly weird from the version of English I was taught. But as far as I know, only uneducated people, not Americans, refer to things as 'in back of'. And feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, which I'm sure you are going to try to do anyway, but isn't the whole 'ae' spelling originally Latin in the first place? In my opinion, the American way to spell certian words is a lot simpler. Except for theatre. I like spelling it that way.
Most english spellings are originated from the french - the most prevalent language in renaissance european society. It always seems to me like the americans attempted to 'de-french' the language, although the whole american political system is based on the ideals of the french republic.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:38 am
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IamredMage Driinex_the_Flower_Child IamredMage Driinex_the_Flower_Child Alrighty then. I'm Dutch, so this whole English or American thing is really strange. I spell some words the English way and I spell some the American way. Frankly I don't think it matters wether you spell it colour or color. It all depends on if you're writing a paper, or a letter to a friend, or a book or story. Take it from someone on the gray end of the black and white spectrum. IT DOES NOT MATTER. IT MEANS THE SAME EXACT FROGGING THING. There. I've said my peice and I'm leaving now. Yeah, but sometimes (excuse me whilst I slip this amazing phraze in again somewhere...), in american context, English becomes so butchered (Oh, yeah, I knew I'd find a place for it somewhere...) that to a person who's taught english english from a young age, it becomes almost unrecognisable. You should have seen me the first time I heard an american refer to something as 'in back of' something else. My brain hurt for weeks... I think you may be confusing American with Southern dialect. Forgive me for saying this, but people from places like Louisiana and Mississippi and Georgia say things totally different than people would in New York, Montana, Texas, or California. Believe me, I know. I'm a grad student with a major in foreign languages. And coming from Holland, everything sounds slightly weird from the version of English I was taught. But as far as I know, only uneducated people, not Americans, refer to things as 'in back of'. And feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, which I'm sure you are going to try to do anyway, but isn't the whole 'ae' spelling originally Latin in the first place? In my opinion, the American way to spell certian words is a lot simpler. Except for theatre. I like spelling it that way. Most english spellings are originated from the french - the most prevalent language in renaissance european society. It always seems to me like the americans attempted to 'de-french' the language, although the whole american political system is based on the ideals of the french republic.
Finally we agree on something. But the American is slightly easier to deal with. I think this whole problem started around WWI time when the cultures decided to throw back in with each other and we realized that, somehow, the Americans had changed everything slightly. And you have to take into consideration that America is the place where all cultures blend. Some words have gotten changed or lost in the process. So I don't really think it's the American's fault that they can't spell the old words properly.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:23 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:46 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:04 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:46 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:09 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:19 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:41 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:02 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:10 am
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:54 am
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:34 am
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Kind of a dusty topic... but oh well.
GirlPuck We use a lot of completely different words here too, we've even got our own dictionary! For instance:
Haha, that's really cool. I live in Australia and we have words from both America and Britain... We go by English English spellings, for obvious reasons (originally an British colony), but we're usually used to both. We use cookies more than biscuits, but otherwise we'll usually use the English English word. We can get away with writing 'ize' instead of 'ise' at the ends of words, and both are accepted in essays and so on.
But that's probably the only spelling they don't mind much... using 'color' instead of 'colour' would probably be corrected... but I guess it depends on the pickiness of the teacher. But technically it should be spelt 'colour' here.
I usually write color when on the internet, just because most people I encounter are American, and it's easier, spell-check-wise.
Woah, long post.
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