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Horepower? Really?
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Originally Posted by Zhanate
Maths?
No, no, no, "math" doesn't take an s. Oh, and while I'm here: neither does "horsepower". |
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Originally Posted by GrantAnderson
Horepower? Really?
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I'd buy that for fie dolla!
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Don't worry, as a visitor to our fair land, your medical bills would have been zero. |
Originally Posted by MOUT__
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Originally Posted by MOUT__
Well, duh. It's a company that sells meat.
Hot dogs. Armour hot dogs. What kind of kids love Armour hot dogs? |
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In many cases, it shouldn't.|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
If you get what they are trying to say... Then WHY does it matter?
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However, in some cases, small trips in spelling can turn an otherwise simple statement into something else completely.
Spelling is important enough that at least a token effort should be made.
The same thing goes for formatting (see "Wall of text" and "punctuation is your friend").
Then again, there's the additional argument about how thoroughly thought through an idea is and how much effort you've taken to convey it.
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As far a former President Bush is concerned, I do believe the BRIT Prime Minister had his nose stuck so far up our Pres. rear end that he couldn't see the light of day.
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No, that's AMOUR.
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
It's French for love, isn't it?
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Well, it sounds the same |
Originally Posted by Lord_Kalistoh
No, that's AMOUR.
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'It's' not "color" or "colour". It's both, mate.
Besides, I would much rather see basic competence with spelling and grammar *than* quibble over American or British localisations.
(Observant readers will note the emphasis on 'than', a potent and noble word that appears to be slipping from many a forum-goer's vocabulary. I.e. it's "greater/less *than* X" NOT "greater/less *then* X".)
I'd also rather see more respect for language in general; it really takes no more time or effort to write "thanks" than "thx".
Language is one of the desperately few things that separate us from the other animals (manners being another). Let's lend it a modicum more respect.
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Originally Posted by _Zuel_
Language is one of the desperately few things that separate us from the WoW players (manners being another). Let's lend it a modicum more respect.
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Man, who said horsepowers? See thats what happens when some pop culture game like Dungeons & Dragons goes and simplifies the lingo. ITS DROW (rhymes with NOW) damnit! Signular and plural, but oh no, somewhere along 3rd and 4th ED they just had to change it.|
Originally Posted by Zhanate
Maths?
No, no, no, "math" doesn't take an s. Oh, and while I'm here: neither does "horsepower". |
BTW Jeremy Clarkson, you can shove it up your butt! GT500's do INDEED produce 500 HORSEPOWER! and for MY'10 its 540!
ohhhh...ummm....yeah. A little to much coffee maybe...
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Very reasonable. But as I sometimes try to explain to my fellow copy editors (yes, scary, I know), trying to impose reason on the language will only make you crazy. |
Originally Posted by Alasdair
Mathematics condenses to 'Maths.'
Mathematic condenses to 'Math.' There is no such thing as a 'Mathematic' class. Nobody is well-versed in 'Mathematic.' Correct this discrepancy immediately. Thank you.  |
Do I hear scoffing? Start thinking about spelling and pronunciation, just the ones you use in your own country (whatever one that is). Try applying reason. I'll wait here with the anti-psychotics.
This thread is hilarious - I am surprised it took so long to spawn!
I am English but have ALWAYS played on the US servers and the funny thing is I adopted the American way of spelling - my whole SG are English players and we have all either consciously or subconsciously dropped our 'u's and changed our 's's to 'z's (thats zed's for you Colonials).
I am looking forward to reverting to the Queens English
BTW in case anyone has missed it what about 'LIEU-tenant' and 'LEFT-tenant' or one to guarantee to make Statesiders chuckle 'rooster' and 'cockerel'
Keep up the laughs, pip pip and cheerio!
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It really takes double the number of keystrokes to write thanks rather than thx. It may well take more than double the time and effort if written by a one-fingered typist on a standard QWERTY keyboard due to the distances betweenthe AS keys and the HNK keys. i.e. the distances moved going from the T key to the H key then to the X are less than half the distances travelled moving T to H to A to N to K to S.|
Originally Posted by _Zuel_
I'd also rather see more respect for language in general; it really takes no more time or effort to write "thanks" than "thx".
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Although it should be noted that neither thanks, nor any of the common in-game abbreviations for the word, takes anywhere near the time and effort that this post did. But I took the pedantry secondary powerset, and I slotted it, so I'll darn well use it!
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I agree entirely! If cold logic and reason was the only precept for language we would probably all be talking in binary by now.|
Originally Posted by Zhanate
Very reasonable. But as I sometimes try to explain to my fellow copy editors (yes, scary, I know), trying to impose reason on the language will only make you crazy.
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Ultimately, we all understand each other and that is the most important thing.
A fine example of my homeland making a poor choice while the united states made a good one is 'mobile phone.' The US uses 'cellphone' from cellular and this is a sensible choice.
The phones do not hover in the air and follow you around of their own volition, they do not have little wheels and come scurrying to your side when you click your fingers (unlike the red rotary phone from the Direct Line adverts.)
These phones are immobile!
The word you are looking for is PORTABLE!
Ok, I'm done.
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Originally Posted by Dr_Graviton
I am looking forward to reverting to the Queens English
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A good friend (originally from Rhode Island) persuaded me to try CoH back in 2005. He was on the Pinnacle server and I've been with the US servers ever since, though I migrated to Virtue about a year after City of Villains appeared.
I've never heard any comment about my (sometimes quite old-fashioned) 'British' English, though they may just have been giggling from behind their keyboards.
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Originally Posted by Dr_Graviton
This thread is hilarious - I am surprised it took so long to spawn!
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Took so long? I posted it before the merger.
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Big part of that occured because of when our language diversion occured in the US and it's close proximity to the Information Age and the general age of communication. Phone, Radio, and Television did alot to constrain the american dialects. We even have an accent that was practically fabricated by radio.|
Originally Posted by Obitus
The language evolves, whch I believe was your point. It's not a big deal. The only surprising thing, to me, about the American variant is that there are so few substantive differences from British English. Despite the USA's vast size, we don't have as many distinct differences in regional accent as you might expect, either -- given the often vast differences one can find over a relatively small distance in the UK.
Laugh all you like at our Texans; you (speaking generally now) know as well as I do that you have more than your fair share of indecipherable accents. Unlike the English of times gone by, though, we cannot easily ascribe a particular social class to any individual based on his accent. |
Personally, I have a problem with words where more than half the letters are seemingly silent
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I agree with at least one of them
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Damnit GG! XD
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Wasn't there a thread on this general topic a little while before the European launch of CoH?|
Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
Took so long? I posted it before the merger.
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Not really, the pound is called the pound due to it being based on the weight of 240 silver pennies. So the weight/money relationship is pretty obvious to us.|
Originally Posted by Duck_Dim_Sum
It's because measuring weight in pounds would be confusing for you. And probably expensive.
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We got that from the Romans, pounds/shillings/pence vs their librae/solidi/denari with the librae being their primary weight measurement (The British symbols for our currency were £/s/d (the £ symbold is based on L for librae).
This is all before decimalisation that is. Now its just £ and p
And as far as measurement goes we generally think in imperial but use metric due to it making more sense.
And its "Colour" and "Armour", as a programmer you have no idea how much I resent having to use "color"
Oh and lastly, did you know we have a different cadence for our alphabet song? as yours doesn't really work if you end it on "zed"
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s'a cute bunneh ya got there...
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Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
i hav no idea wur ur talkin bout so herez a bunny wit a pancake on its hed:
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Everyone should use all and every perceivable spelling for a word, just in cases.
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Originally Posted by Rikis
Evri 1 shuld yews awl and evry purseevabull spelling four a wird, just in case.
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If you say so.
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