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  • #52
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    OP, I'd totally agree with you if only you'd edit your post to say 'care less' instead of 'careless'. The way you have written it is a bit careless clumsy. ;)

    I think you've been a bit careless in your reading of the Op ........ the point he was making is the mistaken use of "careless" instead of "care less".


  • #53
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,354 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    RoyalMarine wrote: »
    Another example of "American English" at work....

    Heard many Americans asking people if they speak American.

    Dey do do dat dough don't dey dough.


  • #54
    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    i r baboon


  • #55
    holy guacamole
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭holy guacamole


    American English is spreading like a terrible plague and stuff like that mentioned by the OP will become commonplace across Europe before too long.

    Already seeing people using the dumbed down US spelling for words like 'realise' and dropping the 'u' out of words like 'neighbour' and it annoys me more than it should.

    In much the same way that Shakespearian English seems outdated so the generations of the future will look back on the English we use today and laugh at how quaint it sounds while they communicate with a series of grunts and farts.


  • #56
    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    it is give a **** what people say , the main thing is what interest or funny, the rest can also remain silent


  • #57
    acon2119
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭acon2119


    What about the idiots who say..... I love him/her to "bits". How do you love someone to bits


  • #58
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • #59
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,343 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Standardized, Standardization... love it.


  • #60
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,416 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    PARlance wrote: »
    Standardized, Standardization... love it.

    The -ize spelling is often incorrectly seen as an Americanism in Britain. However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) recommends -ize and notes that the -ise spelling is from French: "The suffix...whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Greek -ιζειν, Latin -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic." The OED lists the -ise form separately, as an alternative.

    Publications by Oxford University Press (OUP)—such as Henry Watson Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Hart's Rules, and The Oxford Guide to English Usage also recommend -ize.


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  • #61
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    less


  • #62
    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    The -ize spelling is often incorrectly seen as an Americanism in Britain. However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) recommends -ize and notes that the -ise spelling is from French: "The suffix...whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Greek -ιζειν, Latin -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic." The OED lists the -ise form separately, as an alternative.

    Publications by Oxford University Press (OUP)—such as Henry Watson Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Hart's Rules, and The Oxford Guide to English Usage also recommend -ize.

    I'm just imagining Permabear holding the string to the trap he set.


  • #63
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,343 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    The -ize spelling is often incorrectly seen as an Americanism in Britain. However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) recommends -ize and notes that the -ise spelling is from French: "The suffix...whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Greek -ιζειν, Latin -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic." The OED lists the -ise form separately, as an alternative.

    Publications by Oxford University Press (OUP)—such as Henry Watson Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Hart's Rules, and The Oxford Guide to English Usage also recommend -ize.

    Ah, I ze, thanks.


  • #64
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


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