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Antoinette

By Antoinette,
Posted on: 2011-03-12 24:12 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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having been taught fencing by an Englishman, I accept both spellings, though part of me has wondered if 'color' is technically wrong due to 'colour' probably having seniority.
Us Americans fought for the right to spell color any darned way we want.
I choose to spell it couleur.

Or maybe hue...or was that hew? ...hugh?

There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"

 

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more slots for alts and new players to annoy with my bad jokes? bonus.In all seriousness, i have teamed with her ina few test events, and shes a good knowledgeable player.
I kind of figured since it does show even here.

 

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Chips in england are america's fries
Crisps are chips

Was actually talking to an american person the other day and said i had chips in the oven . . .. they looked at me wierd

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I'll be sticking to Union, but due to an irrational need to stick to home more than anything.

Doesn't mean I won't get anything out of this, though. I look forward to maybe seeing more people on Union, including at the later times I'm on. I look forward to being able to see the awesome events you NA peeps host on your servers, even if I can only do so on a fresh lowbie. I look forward to the potential global chat channels that could spring up. I look forward to the possibility of one test server. Hell, I look forward to the global names that I could recognise from the forums appearing in my game.

Excited!

Edit: I am not looking forward to the opposing spellings and words that're already being brought up in this thread, though. I get so ana- ... picky about these things.

 

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Chips in england are america's fries
Crisps are chips
And cigarettes are.... maybe I shouldn't say that here. >.>

 

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And cigarettes are.... maybe I shouldn't say that here. >.>
I had someone just last month assume they knew what the british words for things were. They were almost right about cigarettes, except they used the full, six-letter version of the one we probably shouldn't mention. In the form of 'I need a cigarette', it was really quite funny.

 

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ooo ooo storm! We can do our union "chats" on their globals now!

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Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
Was actually talking to an american person the other day and said i had chips in the oven . . .. they looked at me wierd
It's not our fault that you say everything wrong.

 

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...In the form of 'I need a cigarette', it was really quite funny.
Hahaha...


I am definitely looking forward to visiting Union and possibly getting involved in some of the role-play I've gotten to hear about.

And I shall do my best to type in the Queen's language with the respect that it deserves...
<.<

Hehe, honestly, I already spell some words the proper way (I can't type theatre any other way) and I am used to much more.
I practically learned to read from my Asterix comics sent from my grandparents.

And, hey, I used to keep a French/English Dictionary on my desk for when I played another game on their unofficial French server... So, I suppose adapting and using real English on the EU servers would be appropriate.

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As an American who's lived in England for three years and has had face-to-face interaction with people from all across the UK, I do find it quite humorous when you Brits get on us (even in jest) about using "proper" English when writing and talking.

And technically speaking, "chips" would be a more accurate general moniker of the potato chunks that we deep fry. However, the whole "Belgian frites" thing does legitimize the use of "fries" as a name for the dish. But I digress ...

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Just so long everyone remembers that they're not actually from France.

 

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Just so long everyone remembers that they're not actually from France.
Right.

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Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater View Post
As an American who's lived in England for three years and has had face-to-face interaction with people from all across the UK, I do find it quite humorous when you Brits get on us (even in jest) about using "proper" English when writing and talking.

And technically speaking, "chips" would be a more accurate general moniker of the potato chunks that we deep fry. However, the whole "Belgian frites" thing does legitimize the use of "fries" as a name for the dish. But I digress ...

I blame Webster


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Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
I blame Webster


What did Webster ever do to you?

 

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Just so long everyone remembers that they're not actually from France.
They're from Freedom? I hate Freedom.

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Chips in england are america's fries
Crisps are chips
But Doritos are universal, mmmm.

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Just so long everyone remembers that they're not actually from France.
No, but they are frenched, AKA julienned.

Goodbye, I guess.

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No, but they are frenched, AKA julienned.
Indeed the origin is frenched, fried potatoes. Shortened to french fries.

Which made the Congressional renaming of french fries to freedom fries in protest of France's refusal to join the 'coalition of the willing' a whole new level of dumb.

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"Julienne" is thinly sliced strips... if you do that to potatoes it's going to be called chips... The term for french fries cut is called "Jardiniere."

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Wow when i go into my local chippy all i get from them is small bag or large . . . .

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