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| smdavies99 |
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...you merely adopted it  |
You appear to have misspelled "perfected", |
Messed it up more like.
Don't even get me started on this wierd thing the US has for:-
1) Farenheit.
2) Feet and Inches[1] and Cubic Inches???
3) Odd value Pints and Gallons
4) 110V Electricity.
5) AM/PM
and worst of all
6) the illogical MM/dd/yyyy Sheesh.
IT is almost as if the rest of the world does not exist or that there is a particular delight in making itself incompatible with the rest of the world.
Rant over. Sorry if any of the above offends my Amrerican Friends. I do like the place despite the frustrations. This year I'll visit my 49th US State.
[1] I am old enough to have been brought up on Imperial Units. I still use them when making model steam engines but for everything else it is Metric.
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| smdavies99 wrote: |
| Rant over. |
  
I'm sure we all know that le Francais is actually the only perfect language. 
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| Vitor |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
| I'm sure we all know that le Francais is actually the only perfect language. |
Burn him! Burn him!   
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
| I'm sure we all know that le Francais is actually the only perfect language. |
Thank you. Before the [greedy] merchants perverted all things in creation, it used to be the language of Diplomacy...
In other words perfectly adequate for over an hour of chit-chat with no meaning whatsoever, or five minutes of deep conversation... whichever you felt inclined to...
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
| mqjeff wrote: |
| I'm sure we all know that le Francais is actually the only perfect language. |
Thank you. Before the [greedy] merchants perverted all things in creation, it used to be the language of Diplomacy...
In other words perfectly adequate for over an hour of chit-chat with no meaning whatsoever, or five minutes of deep conversation... whichever you felt inclined to... |
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| Burn him too! Burn him too! |
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| rammer |
| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| smdavies99 wrote: |
| mqjeff wrote: |
| exerk wrote: |
| ...you merely adopted it |
You appear to have misspelled "perfected", |
Messed it up more like.
Don't even get me started on this wierd thing the US has for:-
1) Farenheit.
2) Feet and Inches[1] and Cubic Inches???
3) Odd value Pints and Gallons
4) 110V Electricity.
5) AM/PM
and worst of all
6) the illogical MM/dd/yyyy Sheesh.
IT is almost as if the rest of the world does not exist or that there is a particular delight in making itself incompatible with the rest of the world.
Rant over. Sorry if any of the above offends my Amrerican Friends. I do like the place despite the frustrations. This year I'll visit my 49th US State.
[1] I am old enough to have been brought up on Imperial Units. I still use them when making model steam engines but for everything else it is Metric. |
Im married to an American so dont let her get started on this, especially as she is an "English" (make that American) Teacher, why do us Brits have U's in so many words colour, homour (they dont get this bit!) neighbour, then the Z instead of the S! o dear a can of worms could be opened here...... It is funny though that our weather in in C nowdays except on a very rare hot day when its hitting record temperatures then they switch to saying 100F! |
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| bruce2359 |
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I was told that the unnecessary 'u' in English-English words is because writers there are paid by the letter. I might be mistaken.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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I think the worst offence is the way Americans pronounce (or should that be prononce?) the word "buoy".
My son spends so much time online gaming that he (a) stays up to 3 am (other players being in the USA timezone), and (b) pronounces some words the American way - like progress, project.
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Americans have more than one pronunciation for progress and project.
Depends on which meaning we intend.
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
Americans have more than one pronunciation for progress and project.
Depends on which meaning we intend. |
Route (root VS rowt)
Schedule (shedule VS skedule)
Root also has different meanings in different English speaking countries. Inappropriate usage could be embarrassing.
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 5:42 am Post subject: |
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| gbaddeley wrote: |
| mqjeff wrote: |
Americans have more than one pronunciation for progress and project.
Depends on which meaning we intend. |
Route (root VS rowt) |
I have heard both of these from native American speakers. It again depends on the context and the meaning intended, and regional dialects.
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| I was told that the unnecessary 'u' in English-English words is because writers there are paid by the letter. I might be mistaken. |
And there I thought it was just vestigial Latin origin...
like couleur => colour => color => clr (next iteration drop all the vowels???)
centre => centre => center => cntr 
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Have you not heard of "keystroke conservation?" Keystrokes not used here (US) and the UK can be used in other countries.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| Have you not heard of "keystroke conservation?" Keystrokes not used here (US) and the UK can be used in other countries. |
Also reducing typing reduces heat from friction and prevents global warming.
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| Vitor wrote: |
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| Have you not heard of "keystroke conservation?" Keystrokes not used here (US) and the UK can be used in other countries. |
Also reducing typing reduces heat from friction and prevents global warming. |
evrybdy nds 2 do thr prt
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