August 14, 2003, 12:09
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 Why should we listen to spelling instructions from doofuses who drive on the wrong side of the road?
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August 14, 2003, 14:17
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"colour" and all it's other "u happy o words" are far too french to be american.
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Well considering that the Americans, when immigrating, adore a tall lady from France, I think that the Americans fraternise far too much with the French.
At least the British can claim to have successfully engaged the French. The Americans can hardly ruffle the French danders.
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Why should we listen to spelling instructions from doofuses who drive on the wrong side of the road?
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Yes, we should all retain the customs of Mother Britain and denounce the ungrateful corrupt colonies. 
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August 14, 2003, 15:25
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Why should we listen to spelling instructions from doofuses who drive on the wrong side of the road?
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Cos if you dont, we'll revoke the declaration of independence!! 
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August 14, 2003, 16:17
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as it stands they've just made English more diffcult to learn.
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Oh like the King's English is any easier for an immigrant to pick up!
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August 14, 2003, 16:56
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Why do Brits have to diss American English? All languages (except french) evolve over time. In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other. 
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August 14, 2003, 16:58
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Cos if you dont, we'll revoke the declaration of independence!!
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 BRING IT ON!
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August 14, 2003, 16:58
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Hey guess what . . . . .
Americans are citizens of a world power, so we don't give a rat's *ss for European bastardized spelling. 
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August 14, 2003, 17:00
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Why do Brits have to diss American English? All languages (except french) evolve over time. In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other.
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Not soon enough, imho.
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August 14, 2003, 17:18
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American English has been very different from British English and was deliberately codified to be different following the revolutionary war. They wanted to show their Independence by developing their own dictionaries where words were deliberately spelled differently just to give the finger to Parliment who was passing laws demanding the British spelling be the only acceptable spellings.
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August 14, 2003, 17:20
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it's ebonics, man... it's all cool 
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August 14, 2003, 17:28
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In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other
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Pretty much the case now
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August 14, 2003, 17:28
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Why do Brits have to diss American English? All languages (except french) evolve over time. In a thousand years Brits, Americans, and Australians won't be able to understand each other.
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'a thousand years'?!?
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August 14, 2003, 17:30
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Just 500 years ago Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland were all one country with one king. The Finns spoke there own language but the other four all spoke the same language or at least the nobility did.
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August 14, 2003, 17:39
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Originally posted by Oerdin
Just 500 years ago Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland were all one country with one king. The Finns spoke there own language but the other four all spoke the same language or at least the nobility did.
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And at present time, the people in Copenhagen doesn't understand us danes in the southern part of Denmark
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August 14, 2003, 17:40
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Yes, we should all retain the customs of Mother Britain and denounce the ungrateful corrupt colonies
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Damn straight!!! *elijah hums rule brittania and escapes into glorious fantasies of empire while still drunk enough to forget that he is the biggest anti-patriot ever*
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August 14, 2003, 17:41
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Hey Elijah, I got some duct tape for ya . . . . .
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August 14, 2003, 17:42
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MrFun: 
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August 14, 2003, 17:43
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kinky 
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August 14, 2003, 17:48
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August 14, 2003, 17:50
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I try.... what can I say?
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August 15, 2003, 16:16
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man, those britishers really have something stuck up their collective craws, mm?
we'll just let them think they're spelling things correctly. it's pretty much all they have left, anyway, their "honor".
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August 15, 2003, 16:48
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Just 500 years ago Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland were all one country with one king. The Finns spoke there own language but the other four all spoke the same language or at least the nobility did.
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yeah of course the Scandinavians didnt have Hollywood movies, BBC dramas on PBS, the Internet, etc. We've read each others novels and poetry for the last 2 hundred years, followed each others movies and tv since those media were born, theyve followed our pop songs since the 1920's, we've followed theirs since the 1960's. Today we read each others newspapers, and are intimately familiar with the slants of each others news networks. Increasingly we are even familiar with eachs others slang.
There is zero, repeat zero chance of the written language ever moving apart . There is almost zero chance of the spoken language moving apart.
Hope everyone take this in good humour. Dont fly off the handle. Eat your French Fries, whatever their color.
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August 15, 2003, 18:20
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I demand that "colour" be added as a valid synonym of "color" to the W3C specs. 
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August 15, 2003, 18:40
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By they way, why do you guys pronounce "Theatre" "Theater"? Don't you know with the "-tre" it would be pronounced "Theatree"?
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August 15, 2003, 18:45
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I demand that "colour" be added as a valid synonym of "color" to the W3C specs.
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did you read about the kernel patch that changes every instance of "colour" to color? 
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August 15, 2003, 18:52
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August 15, 2003, 19:21
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By they way, why do you guys pronounce "Theatre" "Theater"? Don't you know with the "-tre" it would be pronounced "Theatree"?
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BTW, "metre" as in "kilometre" is pronounced differently from "meter" as in "odometer".
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August 15, 2003, 20:10
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And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy!"
"Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I ****ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective." --Barack Obama
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August 15, 2003, 20:33
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They are different words, eh.
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August 15, 2003, 20:49
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Hey, if you want to harass anybody about messing up the language... you MIGHT want to start with the Jamaicans....
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