Melendwyr wrote:3mm4 wrote:Is this a 'meter/metre' comment?
No. It's a question.
Say goodnight, Gracie.
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Allen! wrote:I know, it confused and aroused me.
Also made me hate him more.
Alja-Markir wrote:I take offense at the statement that American spellings are "stupid and wrong".
A language is based on societal acceptance, much like currency, and simply because one nation uses pounds and another uses dollars, doesn't mean the dollar is stupid and wrong.
Due to an international upbringing, I'm in the unique position of being well versed in both traditional English and American English, and I tend to prefer to use the American spellings because they're generally shorter and more sensible in their spellings. That's my choice and its based on practicality and common usage.
Now, when in England I don't mock the English for using their societal spellings, rather I try to adopt the English regional vocabularies and manners of speech for myself. In my own writing I may prefer gray to grey, but I don't balk when I see a distance written in 'metres'. I accept it for what it is, a regional quirk, and expect others to do the same regarding my habits and choice of spelling.
You can be as big a traditionalist as you like, but at some point you do start sounding hypocritical. Want to consider a variant of a language wrong because it's not traditional? Then take up speaking bloody Anglo-Saxon. In this day and age tradition without meaning or value is bunk, so please don't call someone else's dialect 'stupid and wrong'.
Furthermore, English is such a huge amalgam of countless other languages that it's not even funny. German, French, Gaelic (Irish as some say), Norwegian, Latin, and Greek influences all make up a huge portion of the language, certainly enough to scare the Old English out of anyone. Our sentence structure, phrasing, definitions, and even spellings have constantly been modified, copied, borrowed, stolen, mistranscribed, and otherwise blended and mutilated from countless sources. English is as non-standard as language gets!
Anywho, I've ranted long enough and the point is made. Open your mind to new horizons and try to embrace new and different things for what they are, language or otherwise.
~Alja-Markir~
Allen! wrote:I know, it confused and aroused me.
Also made me hate him more.
Alja-Markir wrote:Example - I've personally heard (and used) soda, pop, soda pop, coke, fizzy drinks, lolly water, minerals, ginger, dope, cold drinks, tonics, and fizzers to describe carbonated soft drinks and colas in general. Several of those are becoming archaic, and a number make no sense unless you know the culture that uses them, but they're all perfectly acceptable, if a bit odd.
Lord Chrusher wrote:Lemonade is usually not carbonated. I prefer to think of them as solutions of simple sugars in carbonic acid.
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