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Post by gloryintruth on May 31, 2009 9:02:23 GMT -5
This is an American English board....therefore it is correct to use the local language of the board origin. If you expect me to learn and use American spellings in order to placate your misguided logic that finding a ratio of 3:909 misspelled words in a post is a valid counter-argument, you will be disappointed. Frankly, this statement is one of the most stupid I've ever read on this board - totally illogical and culturally ignorant: if you're a product of U.S. public education, you should demand your taxes back. You've been robbed! I will wait (though I expect in vain) for your apology regarding my knowledge of the language, which I assure you is far superior to your own. I will also wait, and do most ardently hope, that you will announce your new "American English only" rule in a fresh thread on the main board, and demand the moderators enforce it.
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Post by gloryintruth on May 31, 2009 9:08:02 GMT -5
Savour with a "u".
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Post by gloryintruth on May 31, 2009 9:36:14 GMT -5
You are wrong again: www.answers.com/topic/savor3. A distinctive quality or sensation: enjoying the savor of victory. Again, I will savor your compliment forever and ever! According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), it is spelled "savour". However, you do not need to pay any attention to what the inventors of the English language say, because even your own dictionaries allow for this as a "variant". Consult: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. I am afraid I was schooled in, and speak and write the Queen's English, and not the local dialect you speak.
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Post by ilylo on May 31, 2009 10:23:42 GMT -5
Oh dear! You make the fundamental mistake of imagining that American spellings for words must be international. In Australian and U.K. English we do not lace our words with "z's" as the Americans do. Rather we use the letter "s". Hence, we write of lasers, not lazers, for example. Oh dear! You make the fundamental mistake of imagining that Americans spell it "lazer" when actually we spell it "laser." After all, if we were the dumb Americans that you make us out to be, we wouldn't have a clue what light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation is. Americans are rather insular when it comes to understanding the rest of the world, so your cultural ignorance can probably be somewhat excused. You see, students in Australia are taught the American and British spellings of words to ensure they write them according to our own conventions. We also aim to inculcate a sense of international citizenship in our students, by teaching about the histories of many countries and places, for example. Non-Americans are rather insular when it comes to understanding America, so your cultural ignorance can probably be somewhat excused. It seems American schools do not produce the same international awareness in their students. Therefore, your assumption that there must exist global conventions of English, and that those conventions must be U.S.-centric as though the U.S. defines the language in every place around the world, is laughable, contemptible, and absurd. Common sense should tell you that such is impossible, even if you were totally in the dark about alternative English language conventions. Your comment is laughable...no, absurd is a better word. We would spell it as " neighbour" which is correct in most parts of the English-speaking world. Hence your premature triumphal crowing only emphasises a rather limited view of the world, and a culturally elitist view of the language. Tsk tsk... your immature triumphal crow is showing.
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Post by whatnow on May 31, 2009 13:01:04 GMT -5
More than an exercise in homophonous humor, "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" endures as a cautionary tale for all those who place too much trust in spell checkers.
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar
I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it's weigh. My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing, It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour spelling mite decline, And if we're lacks oar have a laps, We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, Their are know fault's with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me, It does knot bring a tier. My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should bee proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting want too pleas.
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Post by Gene on May 31, 2009 13:13:50 GMT -5
Edgar wrote often about the love of Christ toward all men. I miss him.
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Post by Gene on May 31, 2009 13:18:48 GMT -5
This is an American English board....therefore it is correct to use the local language of the board origin. Oh, please. Using American English on this board is no more correct than using Australian or British English. For that matter, ich kann auf deutsch schreiben, wenn ich will. But you were kidding, right? g
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Post by pablo on May 31, 2009 14:15:57 GMT -5
One who adopts the role of teacher really ought to be skilled in the subject. The spelling is ' victims.' Go back to sleep, fred, I know how to spell "victim" I was merely poking fun at Lloyd by quoting him. Perhaps you should have re-read LLoyd's post prior to mine, before jumping in at the deep end. By the way I was a teacher.
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Post by pablo on May 31, 2009 14:41:12 GMT -5
This is an American English board....therefore it is correct to use the local language of the board origin. Oh, please. Using American English on this board is no more correct than using Australian or British English. For that matter, ich kann auf deutsch schreiben, wenn ich will. But you were kidding, right? -------- uuuummm! watch it Gene Nelson, British English and Australian English is the Queen's English and is proper and correct; they invented it. America came along afterwards and contaminated it.
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Post by fred on May 31, 2009 17:31:45 GMT -5
Mmmm.......Pablo, that thought had crossed my mind. But then I went with my better judgement that you wouldn't have been poking fun at someone because of their disability.
That you were a teacher doesn't lessen the offence.
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Post by shushy on May 31, 2009 17:40:12 GMT -5
After reading 3 pages on Edgar. I do hope he is ok. I laughed out loud at some of the comments. Wanted to react. Got my gun out began to load and changed my flippin mind...stuff it I'll clean it instead.
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Post by pablo on May 31, 2009 18:32:09 GMT -5
Mmmm.......Pablo, that thought had crossed my mind. But then I went with my better judgement that you wouldn't have been poking fun at someone because of their disability. That you were a teacher doesn't lessen the offence. Well fred, as my Japanese friend would say: Ah so!!
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Post by freespirit on May 31, 2009 22:52:34 GMT -5
This is an American English board....therefore it is correct to use the local language of the board origin. Our life experience is enriched by learning about diverse nationalities and cultures. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Americanfs
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Post by gloryintruth on Jun 1, 2009 7:42:11 GMT -5
It depends on where you live. However, fly populations have a distinct trend with which most of us would be familiar. For about three-four months of the year (summer) they are abundant; higher temperatures suit the physiology and life-cycle of the common fly, however, during the colder period of the year, they are hardly to be seen.
The fly population in the vast, and unexplored interiors of our island continent would be virtually nil. It is desert; some of the highest temperatures on the planet occur there as well as conditions of perpetual drought, and little, if anything can survive.
The "Australian accent" with which you would be familiar is a Hollywood concoction that no Australian - or at least, very few Australians - would enunciate. Being one of the most multicultural places on earth, we actually have many accents. I certainly do not speak with the stereotypical "Australian" accent - which is often an object for humour\satire here.
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Post by ronhall on Jun 1, 2009 9:33:18 GMT -5
I thought Edgar Massey was Canadian, from one of the inland provinces, perhaps Alberta and had an American wife from California.
Is that correct?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2009 10:21:03 GMT -5
I thought Edgar Massey was Canadian, from one of the inland provinces, perhaps Alberta and had an American wife from California. Is that correct? Parttly incorrect. Canadian, B&R in Saskatchewan, but probably 30+ years (?)in Sweden with a Swedish family. I think that's more accurate.
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Post by freespirit on Jun 1, 2009 10:22:36 GMT -5
For Bert's list:
Despite claims of being "the same" worldwide, the f&w's in Australia use different spellings for some words.
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Post by IllinoisGal on Jun 1, 2009 20:10:56 GMT -5
For Bert's list: Despite claims of being "the same" worldwide, the f&w's in Australia use different spellings for some words. fs They do in Canada too
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Post by freespirit on Jun 2, 2009 0:43:04 GMT -5
Here is your post with the 9 misspelled words underlined. You misspelled 3 times as many words as you thought even after bringing spelling errors to your attention. These are grade school spelling errors. Are you really a high school teacher? Hmm, I think you should update your spell checker or study grade school spelling again. In fact, I recommend you start with third spelling and review the spelling rules such as "i before e except after c, and in words like neighbor and weigh". I think that the criticizing of English spelling is seriously culturally insensitive. Has nothing to do with 2x2s, hairbuns, religion or anything else that we talk about on TMB. fs
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Post by kiwi on Jun 2, 2009 2:57:48 GMT -5
This is an American English board....therefore it is correct to use the local language of the board origin. Are you really that dim?
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Post by freespirit on Jun 2, 2009 7:58:08 GMT -5
Maaibee ur speeelng lessans wil samrten us op. ;D fs
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Post by ClayRandall on Jun 2, 2009 12:17:16 GMT -5
When Mr. Massey accused the United States of deliberately targeting innocent children with bombs, he forfeited any claim to the title of "voice of reason". Millions of people hold that view as well! Should I be banned for saying so???!! From what I can tell Edgar was not banned, nor should anyone be banned for holding the unreasonable belief that the U.S. deliberately targets innocent children.
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Post by ClayRandall on Jun 2, 2009 12:32:28 GMT -5
Clay if it took Einstein to help develop the Atom bomb you would think the U.S knew many women and children would be part it. And are still feeling the effects.Only nonsense because few generation of your family tree were not wiped off the face of this earth. Facts As many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki may have died from the bombings by the end of 1945[129], roughly half of the residential populations on the days of the bombings. Thousands more have been subsequently killed from injuries or illness due to radiation.[130] In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians. Now the U.S plays nuclear police and tells nations not to build something we stock pile. nitro Fortunately it doesn't take an Einstein to recognize that the technologies have changed just a little bit in the 70 years since World War II. Today's American military has very precise bombs capable of landing within 6 meters of their targets, and great pains have been taken to avoid collateral damage. This is quite different from the Allied bombing of German cities like Dresden. Anyone in today's world who worries about the U.S. using a nuclear bomb on them should spend more time worrying about countries like North Korea or Iran (or Islamic terrorist groups) who would actually do it.
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Post by ariandgabe on Jun 2, 2009 13:25:32 GMT -5
ClayRandal quote:Fortunately it doesn't take an Einstein to recognize that the technologies have changed just a little bit in the 70 years since World War II. Today's American military has very precise bombs capable of landing within 6 meters of their targets, and great pains have been taken to avoid collateral damage. This is quite different from the Allied bombing of German cities like Dresden.
Anyone in today's world who worries about the U.S. using a nuclear bomb on them should spend more time worrying about countries like North Korea or Iran (or Islamic terrorist groups) who would actually do it.
Are you saying that just because we killed tens of thousands of Arabs who were armed with equivalent of shovels compared to us, does not count because we used 'accuracy'?
I fear North Korea, Iran and the Islamic terrorists far less then the US. Actually, I worry about some Palestinians buying and trying to send a nuke into Israel and having it blow up in their faces more then what they might do to us or anyone. Their only effective weapon still is 'suicide bombings' and no matter how good a suicide-bomber is, he only gets to do it once. He simply cannot 'improve' on his attack.
But the greatest danger of all is; blind ignorance and I don't mean of human wisdom either. Ignorance of Gods Word and its warning of the coming of the exact thing that is bringing this country down.
A good example here is Dietcoke, who can switch jackets and put on his sheepskin and everyone thinks he's a Christian. Christians will actually listen to his gibberish on the Bible as if he meant well.
This goes on the same line as what I have seen on the news back during the Gulf War, parents complaining on camera that; "This is NOT what my son went to enlist for. He enlisted to get a free education and the benefits when he finished school, NOT to take him and put a gun in his hand and have him drive the jeep across roadside-bombs!"
I laughed so hard that my side hurt. The FSM is the same way, they claim to be the closest to the Bible, but if someone challenges them from the Bible, they hide. They pull that bushel upon their heads so tight that NO LIGHT would ever be able to escape. This same 'bushel' has been put on this once Great country of ours by the Religious Leaders who pack their Stadiums to the hilt with greedy people seeking after love, wealth and prosperity.
"COME!" they say, "this here Christ will bring peace, love and prosperity to you and your loved ones. Here is Christ!, And next Sunday he will be in Boston, or L.A. so hurry, hurry the blessings are unbelievable! Just listen to the testimonies; this little lady signed her monthly SS-check to us, and just as she was about to die of hunger, a man walked up to her house and said to her: "Nelly, your great-great uncle died and has left you two hundred million dollars!"
And you see this entire building filled with the multitudes rise to their feet and cheer, ... "RRAAAaaahhhhhh, YEEEAAAAhhhhhh praise the Lord!"
But I guess right now Christianity has bigger problems, which is to try to explain the 'Trinity-Doctrine' and why we even need it, or what 'spelling' is the correct one, English or American? All the while we are herded to extermination.
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Post by Sylvestra on Jun 2, 2009 14:40:24 GMT -5
It depends on where you live. However, fly populations have a distinct trend with which most of us would be familiar. For about three-four months of the year (summer) they are abundant; higher temperatures suit the physiology and life-cycle of the common fly, however, during the colder period of the year, they are hardly to be seen. The fly population in the vast, and unexplored interiors of our island continent would be virtually nil. It is desert; some of the highest temperatures on the planet occur there as well as conditions of perpetual drought, and little, if anything can survive. The "Australian accent" with which you would be familiar is a Hollywood concoction that no Australian - or at least, very few Australians - would enunciate. Being one of the most multicultural places on earth, we actually have many accents. I certainly do not speak with the stereotypical "Australian" accent - which is often an object for humour\satire here. This is a hoot GiC! Australians have very distinct dialects, and sound different even to yourselves around the country. I can't always differentiate them, but I can nearly always tell when someone is Australian born and raised. I have also visited your wonderful country, and everywhere people sounded Australian unless they were from a different country (like myself). E
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Post by Child of God on Jun 2, 2009 19:21:57 GMT -5
But I guess right now Christianity has bigger problems, which is to try to explain the 'Trinity-Doctrine' and why we even need it, or what 'spelling' is the correct one, English or American? All the while we are herded to extermination. You got that right.... the general public is walking around right now with their hands held out in front waiting for the handcuffs.... worried about whither they will offend someone if they say the wrong thing about someone who wants to handcuff them. Sooner or later it will come down to what they believe in.... DO YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS OR ALAH? What are you going to say? Depends on your definition of the trinity doctrine? Can we just get along? I love you and do not have any hatred in my soul for you! ((((KaBOOM...))))
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Post by Gene on Jun 2, 2009 20:16:47 GMT -5
I miss Edgar.
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Post by ClayRandall on Jun 2, 2009 20:18:08 GMT -5
Are you saying that just because we killed tens of thousands of Arabs who were armed with equivalent of shovels compared to us, does not count because we used 'accuracy'? *sigh*. No, that is not what I'm saying. I'm pointing out the difference between aiming at military targets (whether you agree with the decision is irrelevant) and intentionally trying to kill noncombatants. I fear North Korea, Iran and the Islamic terrorists far less then the US. "Far less" than the US? Wow. But the greatest danger of all is; blind ignorance and I don't mean of human wisdom either. I couldn't agree more. It's what makes otherwise intelligent people believe incredibly ridiculous things...
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