I'd be quite happy for yours to be renamed 'American' instead of English
First is not always best. We Americans refined it. We got rid of those unnecessary letters. Over the years, it has saved us an awful lot of toner in our printers. And their computer keyboards...the U must wear out faster!Gosh.
Given that they were speaking English in England, long before it was in spoken in America, don't you think that maybe their version is actually correct, and has simply been bastardised for other audiences?
Oh, God! Y'all don't add letters to the language too, do ya?
Hey stop using those big words on me! You'll blow out my spell checker!
That is AWESOME!!! Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome
Language has a life of its own and evolves accordingly.
However, back to the OP I agree that looking for a 'dominate' is just plain wrong
Say what? You're speaking gibberish, man!Does this mean you think textspeak should be the next stage in this evolution? gr8t 4 saving toner.
Is that so bad?Does this mean you think textspeak should be the next stage in this evolution? gr8t 4 saving toner.
Check my post, above. I found the old thread. You could use it as a reference tool. FungiUg is still here.Are you saying the forum is currently without a language nazi/sadist?!
I'll fill those shoes!
He lives in New Zealand! That's where my editor was from!
Not all that evolves survives....although the movie Idiocracy comes to mind.
Fry makes a good point, a great point- language is fluid and more complex than any set of rules....but fer cryin' out loud, it's one thing to butcher it when you know all the highways and bi-ways and another to just plod through, disinterested by virtue of ignorance.
Then, statistically speaking, it's more likely the editor was actually a sheep.Check my post, above. I found the old thread. You could use it as a reference tool. FungiUg is still here.
Are you opposed to people having bi-ways?Quite right
That would be 'by-ways' not bi-ways
Just sayin'
Are you opposed to people having bi-ways?
*damn! busted!*
Not at all, I have some myself
The problem with picking up someone else's mistakes or ignorance is - it highlights your own even more so
Alright. I'll be sadist-masochist then. I can take a good correction....and I think I'm talking about grammar and usage....
At least you can spell grammar correctly
Night, night
Oh...not meaning anything by it, but as for bastardizing the language...you misspelled that word in your post.
Does this mean you think textspeak should be the next stage in this evolution? gr8t 4 saving toner.
But QWERTY keyboards are meant to slow down typists, so as not to block type-writers.*coughs*
Did not.
What's with the taking out a perfectly good s and turning it into a z thing anyways?
I mean, there's a reason z is tucked down in the bottom corner of the keyboard, because it isn't meant to be used much! lol
(Mind you, I used a German laptop at uni once, with the z and the y switched around, because they don't use y much, and Word's spell check had a fricking field day!)
