Red Squirrel
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Zenmervolt
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Technically, an internet post is a form of publication.
Pedantry aside, if you're on a site with a ".com" extension instead of a ".co.uk" extension, it seems rather silly not to expect the chief audience to be from the US.
Bottom line, know your audience. It's just foolish to expect every person to be familiar with every variant spelling of every word in every dialect. If I were to post on a British website, I'd expect to see a few people correct my US spelling. That's just the way things work.
ZV
0roo0roo
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No... things like -our are french spellings..
Hae- makes no sense.
American spellings are superior and frankly done the right english way. Many americanisms are preserved english done the right way, it is you that went wrong
Gintaras
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American spellings are superior and frankly done the right english way. Many americanisms are preserved english done the right way, it is you that went wrong
Future american language neither so called american english or RIGHT ENGLISH than came from ENGLAND...
Future american language - EBONICS...
new yorkers are big fans of Sean Connery:
They do shpeak: shtrong, shtraight, shtreet..
I usually ask them: "Why do you shpeak like thish"?
shortylickens
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Until someone from the Isles learns how to speak properly, I don't much care for how they spell their fucking words. Learn to be accent neutral already ffs.
Also, it's ZEE not ZED. Zebra isn't Zed-bra dipshits.
Also, it's ZEE not ZED. Zebra isn't Zed-bra dipshits.
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I know someone who thought it would be funny to one day write a report with only British spellings and the joke was on him when people thought he had plagiarized it all from the internet.
If by a lot of people then you mean your professors, then you should do what they want rather than try to be "right". Otherwise yeah it's obnoxious to take something you wrote, underline all your different spellings and hand it back to you for no reason.
OP, did you used to go to IIT and are now taking a hiatus to pursue your musical interests?
If by a lot of people then you mean your professors, then you should do what they want rather than try to be "right". Otherwise yeah it's obnoxious to take something you wrote, underline all your different spellings and hand it back to you for no reason.
OP, did you used to go to IIT and are now taking a hiatus to pursue your musical interests?
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Red Squirrel
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That's what I'm saying, they ARE DIFFERENT. You're the one not understanding and somehow thinking that I'm saying they're the same, but I'M NOT. I don't know why you even think that. I said it multiple times they are different.
thescreensavers
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CZroe
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Hah, no country has a monopoly on fat/ugly/unhealthy people.
I love how the 'example' pic for the US has a normal-looking woman in the background with her face blurred out.
This seems to be a more typical 20-something around my part of town, this is one of my friends here in the area, and she's the mother of a 2-year-old as well
Looks like she could use a few Big Macs.
Arkaign
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Don't tell her that lol
She drinks a lot of beer though she does work out and eat pretty healthy. But yeah, I've met very few women in my life who have a realistic view of their bodies. She of course thinks she's 'fat'.
Baasha
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Most whites in America are descendants of the dregs of Europe who were uneducated and in several ways, still are. They have come to invent whole words such as "snuck" and "nucular" and mock others who speak correct English (King's), albeit with an accent. Oh, the irony!
Americans in general have a very weak grasp of English grammar and their ability to correctly spell is horrendous; a national shame that most Spelling Bee winners are first-generation immigrants. Chinese outshone (yes, the past-tense of "shine" is "shone", NOT "shined"!) the Americans in English tests!
Highly irksome when many Americans use highly incorrect words like "dove" instead of "dived", and show almost complete ignorance of the concept of past-participles.
Words such as "beaten" are substituted with "beat"; words such as "broken" and substituted with "broke" etc. Highly irritating and laughable that although English is many Americans' first language, their understanding of the basic grammatical rules and usage is puerile and just dumb.
A travesty that people like Hemingway won a Nobel for literature. Such nitwits couldn't hold a candlelight to giants such as Conan Doyle, Tagore, Dickens, and Shaw et. al.
It is interesting to note that it was an Indian politician and freedom fighter, VS Srinivasa Shastri, who was conferred the honorable title of "Silver-Tongued Orator of the British Empire" for his command over the English language! Link: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Srinivasa_Sastri)
Even Indians in the modern era such as Shashi Tharoor have an amazing grasp of King's English. A fine example can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiTrl0W1QrM
The bottom line is that when one wants to learn something, one must learn it from the source; it is very difficult to come across people (exceptions like VSSS and ST as described above exist) who have a grasp of a language at the level of the native speaker. Thus, when one wants to learn English, learn it from the English. When one wants to learn Japanese, learn it from the Japanese, and so on.
Americans represent an amalgam of cultural and racial miscegenation and are especially disdainful of preserving traditions, even in rules of language! Therefore, many incorrect usages of the English language have become commonplace, perhaps as a result of acculturation from constant waves of immigrants, and are perpetuated by constant repetition and some indifference.
According to some of the comments on this thread, Ebonics should be a fine substitute for "English" and should be taught in schools from the start. Since rules of grammar and spelling seemed to be mocked so readily by some Americans, I'm sure they will have no issue with Ebonics replacing their vacuous lexicon.
Holla at yo boi! :thumbsup:
Americans in general have a very weak grasp of English grammar and their ability to correctly spell is horrendous; a national shame that most Spelling Bee winners are first-generation immigrants. Chinese outshone (yes, the past-tense of "shine" is "shone", NOT "shined"!) the Americans in English tests!
Highly irksome when many Americans use highly incorrect words like "dove" instead of "dived", and show almost complete ignorance of the concept of past-participles.
Words such as "beaten" are substituted with "beat"; words such as "broken" and substituted with "broke" etc. Highly irritating and laughable that although English is many Americans' first language, their understanding of the basic grammatical rules and usage is puerile and just dumb.
A travesty that people like Hemingway won a Nobel for literature. Such nitwits couldn't hold a candlelight to giants such as Conan Doyle, Tagore, Dickens, and Shaw et. al.
It is interesting to note that it was an Indian politician and freedom fighter, VS Srinivasa Shastri, who was conferred the honorable title of "Silver-Tongued Orator of the British Empire" for his command over the English language! Link: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Srinivasa_Sastri)
Even Indians in the modern era such as Shashi Tharoor have an amazing grasp of King's English. A fine example can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiTrl0W1QrM
The bottom line is that when one wants to learn something, one must learn it from the source; it is very difficult to come across people (exceptions like VSSS and ST as described above exist) who have a grasp of a language at the level of the native speaker. Thus, when one wants to learn English, learn it from the English. When one wants to learn Japanese, learn it from the Japanese, and so on.
Americans represent an amalgam of cultural and racial miscegenation and are especially disdainful of preserving traditions, even in rules of language! Therefore, many incorrect usages of the English language have become commonplace, perhaps as a result of acculturation from constant waves of immigrants, and are perpetuated by constant repetition and some indifference.
According to some of the comments on this thread, Ebonics should be a fine substitute for "English" and should be taught in schools from the start. Since rules of grammar and spelling seemed to be mocked so readily by some Americans, I'm sure they will have no issue with Ebonics replacing their vacuous lexicon.
Holla at yo boi! :thumbsup:
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most americans dont care, they may kid with you but they really dont care when you get down to it.
if it was your professor, just do what he/she wants, but if it's some random, then dont worry about it.
if it was your professor, just do what he/she wants, but if it's some random, then dont worry about it.
Rumpltzer
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???
If you're Indian, then why does it matter how the white man spells American words. Just scoot on back to the reservation, smoke 'um peace pipe, drink the fire water, and keep those casinos running!
When puberty hit, I developed a sudden existential crisis and had this strange low feeling. I would question EVERYTHING.
zinfamous
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that's not a British English-only thing, dumbass. It's Latin.
...that's an everybody-but-the-USA thing.
this is not "the English alphabet"
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