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The Americanization of spelling and terminology

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  • 29-06-2020 10:40am
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    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!
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    So, like, there I was waiting in line in the parking lot with my shopping cart to enter the grocery store in the shopping mall. I was parked on the top floor so I had to get the elevator to the first floor with the cart.

    And like, who did I meet?! My MOM!

    No-one was standing 2 meters away.


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    Dravokivich
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    Eh, in america the ground floor is the first floor.


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    #3
    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Eh, in america the ground floor is the first floor.

    Whhooosshh


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    Mr. CooL ICE
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    What firearms did you buy?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Even Americans can spell Americanisation properly..

    But yeah, this is one of the things that torments me..


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    Harry Palmr
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    Programme is spelt p r o g r a m m e.


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    Lewis_Benson
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    Did you go thru the elevator doors and then go to the water closet?
    Was the faucet working in there?


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    riffmongous
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    Something I used to get annoyed by.. but now it's like **** it, what difference does it really make if one language that was forced on Ireland in the past it supplanted by another.


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    kowloon
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    Everything defaulting to US English spellcheck is responsible for some of it.


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    Is your mom also hairy, OP?


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    jam_mac_jam
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    American dates are worse. Many people in my work do it as they have worked for American companies in the past. It drives me mad... I don't know what date that is now. So so stupid.


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    #12
    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!
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    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    American dates are worse. Many people in my work do it as they have worked for American companies in the past. It drives me mad... I don't know what date that is now. So so stupid.

    It really is stoopid so it is.


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    pleasant Co.
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    Cáca milis

    Bainne

    Baile Átha Cliath


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    murpho999
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    So many people use "defense" instead of "defence". See it all over the soccer forun.

    Also, people who say "awesome" are annoying.


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    Leg End Reject
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    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! wrote: »
    So, like, there I was waiting in line in the parking lot with my shopping cart to enter the grocery store in the shopping mall. I was parked on the top floor so I had to get the elevator to the first floor with the cart.

    And like, who did I meet?! My MOM!

    No-one was standing 2 meters away.

    That's the use of American terminology, not spelling.

    I believe 'pedantic' is the same on both sides of the pond though.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




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    murpho999 wrote: »

    Also, people who say "awesome" are annoying.

    I work with a young lad who says this all the time..

    It's gotten to the stage where everyone else says it and everyone breaks down laughing when they do..

    It's pretty awesome..


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    corner of hells
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    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! wrote: »
    So, like, there I was waiting in line in the parking lot with my shopping cart to enter the grocery store in the shopping mall. I was parked on the top floor so I had to get the elevator to the first floor with the cart.

    And like, who did I meet?! My MOM!

    No-one was standing 2 meters away.

    One of my friends is Japanese, instead of saying bollocks , we say borrocks when in conversation with him.

    Borrocks to your thread OP.


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    ThewhiteJesus
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    Incorrectly spelling Loose or Lose in context,
    or people who write ye as in ye clowns.
    These two things will probably kill me.


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    murpho999
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    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    Incorrectly spelling Loose or Lose in context,
    or people who write ye as in ye clowns.
    These two things will probably kill me.

    But neither of them are Americanisations.


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    riffmongous
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    But ye is as Irish as you can get nowadays, it also makes sense too


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    ThewhiteJesus
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    But neither of them are Americanisations.

    haha true i got sidetracked !
    Well as mentioned previously, it's the date thing that bugs me most


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    El_Duderino 09
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Something I used to get annoyed by.. but now it's like **** it, what difference does it really make if one language that was forced on Ireland in the past it supplanted by another.

    Yeah languages drift all the time. It's really not anything to get cross about.

    If you're cross about the language drifting during your lifetime, are you also cross about how the language has drifted before you started speaking it?


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    El_Duderino 09
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    For context, this is English spoken in the 1300s. It's the start of the prologue to Chauser's Canterbury Tales:

    WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
    The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
    And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
    Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
    Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
    The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
    And smale fowles maken melodye,
    That slepen al the night with open ye
    (So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
    Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

    Languages change over time. Get over it.


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    biko
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    Join the fight against American cultural imperialism.


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    #25
    ILoveYourVibes
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Programme is spelt p r o g r a m m e.


    I know this. But I don't have the confidence to ignore the American spell check.


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    #26
    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!
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    This isn't genuine language drift though, it's just pure ignorance.

    And by ignorance I don't mean rudeness. But that's for another thread.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Is there some way to change the spell check to proper spelling?..

    That would actually make my life better..


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    Guy:Incognito
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    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! wrote: »
    So, like, there I was waiting in line in the parking lot with my shopping cart to enter the grocery store in the shopping mall. I was parked on the top floor so I had to get the elevator to the first floor with the cart.

    And like, who did I meet?! My MOM!

    No-one was standing 2 meters away.

    Spelling? Thats all examples of different words being used entirely.

    Id be more concerned about people that dont seem to understand that "been" is not interchangeable with "being".


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    #29
    Leg End Reject
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Is there some way to change the spell check to proper spelling?..

    That would actually make my life better..

    Yes, change it from the default American English.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




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    #30
    murpho999
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    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    For context, this is English spoken in the 1300s. It's the start of the prologue to Chauser's Canterbury Tales:

    WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
    The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
    And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
    Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
    Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
    The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
    And smale fowles maken melodye,
    That slepen al the night with open ye
    (So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
    Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

    Languages change over time. Get over it.


    Using Americanisms is not languages changing over time.
    It's simply spelling things wrong.

    Like people saying "your" for "you're", it's wrong and will never be right no matter how much a language changes.


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    Hangdogroad
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    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    For context, this is English spoken in the 1300s. It's the start of the prologue to Chauser's Canterbury Tales:

    WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
    The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
    And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
    Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
    Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
    The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
    And smale fowles maken melodye,
    That slepen al the night with open ye
    (So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
    Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

    Languages change over time. Get over it.

    Cowabunga.


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