| [Budred] Friday, February 26, 2010 11:30:33 AM | |
|
The inner mechanisms of my mind are broken(LOL).
Or at least slowed by the years of abuse.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:45:43 PM)| |  | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | THE INNER MECHANISMS OF MY MIND ARE AN ENIGMA.
 |
|
|
| [Vaillant 3.0] Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:45:43 PM | |
|
THE INNER MECHANISMS OF MY MIND ARE AN ENIGMA.
|
|
| [guidogodoy] Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:27:09 PM | |
|
While I can't disagree, that isn't the only culprit. Technology now dominates to a level of major distraction, most opt for the internet over a book and both parents (or single parents) working leads to an unprecedented level of "self / peer raising" of a child.
All combine to that "imperfect storm" of self-entitlement = dumb!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by kiamat from Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:58:05 PM)| | | kiamat wrote: | | Most of the kids are as intelligent as ever, but the government dumbs exams down to a level that the most stupid/lazy can pass, then nobody feels 'left out'... or they might sue for the trauma of it.
| | | SkyRideR wrote: | | | i heard a news report stating that high school diplomas are worth nothing and kids are actually dumber than before... |
|
|
|
| [kiamat] Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:58:05 PM | |
|
Most of the kids are as intelligent as ever, but the government dumbs exams down to a level that the most stupid/lazy can pass, then nobody feels 'left out'... or they might sue for the trauma of it.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by SkyRideR from Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:00:30 PM)| | | SkyRideR wrote: | | | i heard a news report stating that high school diplomas are worth nothing and kids are actually dumber than before... |
|
|
| [SkyRideR] Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:00:30 PM | |
|
| i heard a news report stating that high school diplomas are worth nothing and kids are actually dumber than before... |
|
| [SkyRideR] Friday, November 13, 2009 2:24:51 PM | |
|
20 test points???
parents should take note...
most bribe their kids for grades anyway. |
|
| [Head banger] Friday, November 13, 2009 2:05:11 PM | |
|
|
| [SkyRideR] Monday, November 09, 2009 5:14:52 PM | |
|
edumacation??? |
|
| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:41:18 PM | |
|
I'm guessing New Foundland Bay.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:32:06 PM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Further east? In Ireland?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | actualy further east than that. probably a days drive from there.
5 days from here. give or take
here is one for ya "come here till I brush your hair"
WTF, you want me to walk towards you untill you start brushing my hair, or untill you finish. come here till I??
wife picked that up from her hillbilly friend
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ah, so its Soys language? Thats why I never understand what hes talking aboot!
| | | Head banger wrote: | | Strat, I have never said oot. well, now I have typed it once. its a more eastern thing.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [Head banger] Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:35:17 PM | |
|
no, east coast of canada
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:32:06 PM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Further east? In Ireland?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | actualy further east than that. probably a days drive from there.
5 days from here. give or take
here is one for ya "come here till I brush your hair"
WTF, you want me to walk towards you untill you start brushing my hair, or untill you finish. come here till I??
wife picked that up from her hillbilly friend
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ah, so its Soys language? Thats why I never understand what hes talking aboot!
| | | Head banger wrote: | | Strat, I have never said oot. well, now I have typed it once. its a more eastern thing.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [_strat_] Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:32:06 PM | |
|
Further east? In Ireland?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Head banger from Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:41:30 AM)| | | Head banger wrote: | | actualy further east than that. probably a days drive from there.
5 days from here. give or take
here is one for ya "come here till I brush your hair"
WTF, you want me to walk towards you untill you start brushing my hair, or untill you finish. come here till I??
wife picked that up from her hillbilly friend
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ah, so its Soys language? Thats why I never understand what hes talking aboot!
| | | Head banger wrote: | | Strat, I have never said oot. well, now I have typed it once. its a more eastern thing.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:28:44 PM | |
|
Damn, that is bad HB. Ok...beer time.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Head banger from Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:41:30 AM)| | | Head banger wrote: | | actualy further east than that. probably a days drive from there.
5 days from here. give or take
here is one for ya "come here till I brush your hair"
WTF, you want me to walk towards you untill you start brushing my hair, or untill you finish. come here till I??
wife picked that up from her hillbilly friend
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ah, so its Soys language? Thats why I never understand what hes talking aboot!
| | | Head banger wrote: | | Strat, I have never said oot. well, now I have typed it once. its a more eastern thing.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:20:50 PM | |
|
Crying? You mean like I am?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:30:12 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Perhaps now you can understand my tagline a bit better! LOL!!!
Hey, there is work here though. Gotta keep the paycheck in mind....or else I could easily start crying.
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Holy crap! I didn't realize it was that bad! You're in HILLBILLY HELL!!!!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Ummmm....come to NW Tennessee sometime. I more than guarantee that you do NOT "have me beat!"
Dude, my city has two streetlights and there are more cows than people. The silo is probably the biggest structure in town while I work in the biggest building. Four stories.
I hear "youins" almost as much as "fixin' ta...." almost as much as I see camouflage as a staple of dress. Why do you think I travel so much? LOL!!
(ok, South Parkin' I go. G'night all).
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Oooohhh...I got you beat Guids. An ex-gf of mine, her mother who lives out near Pittsburgh, has a penchant for saying 'youins'. To me, this is like, beyond hillbilly.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | As long as she is gonna give me a new tuque afterwards! LOL!!!!
"Oh, I gotta waste to throw!"
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Ahhhhh....quit your kevetching and stop mumbling, will ya!! LOL I can't understand what you're typing...it's too fast for me to read! We need to turn you over to my old speech teacher, Miss. Kinney. She'll straighten you out, you hoser. 
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| |
|
Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
| |
That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
Hiya Strat  there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edited at: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:28:54 AM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [Head banger] Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:41:30 AM | |
|
actualy further east than that. probably a days drive from there.
5 days from here. give or take
here is one for ya "come here till I brush your hair"
WTF, you want me to walk towards you untill you start brushing my hair, or untill you finish. come here till I??
wife picked that up from her hillbilly friend
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:42:35 AM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ah, so its Soys language? Thats why I never understand what hes talking aboot!
| | | Head banger wrote: | | Strat, I have never said oot. well, now I have typed it once. its a more eastern thing.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [guidogodoy] Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:30:12 AM | |
|
Perhaps now you can understand my tagline a bit better! LOL!!!
Hey, there is work here though. Gotta keep the paycheck in mind....or else I could easily start crying.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Darth_Painkiller_0870 from Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:51:11 AM)| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Holy crap! I didn't realize it was that bad! You're in HILLBILLY HELL!!!!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Ummmm....come to NW Tennessee sometime. I more than guarantee that you do NOT "have me beat!"
Dude, my city has two streetlights and there are more cows than people. The silo is probably the biggest structure in town while I work in the biggest building. Four stories.
I hear "youins" almost as much as "fixin' ta...." almost as much as I see camouflage as a staple of dress. Why do you think I travel so much? LOL!!
(ok, South Parkin' I go. G'night all).
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Oooohhh...I got you beat Guids. An ex-gf of mine, her mother who lives out near Pittsburgh, has a penchant for saying 'youins'. To me, this is like, beyond hillbilly.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | As long as she is gonna give me a new tuque afterwards! LOL!!!!
"Oh, I gotta waste to throw!"
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Ahhhhh....quit your kevetching and stop mumbling, will ya!! LOL I can't understand what you're typing...it's too fast for me to read! We need to turn you over to my old speech teacher, Miss. Kinney. She'll straighten you out, you hoser.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| |
|
Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
| |
That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edited at: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:28:54 AM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [_strat_] Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:42:35 AM | |
|
Ah, so its Soys language? Thats why I never understand what hes talking aboot!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Head banger from Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:18:56 AM)| | | Head banger wrote: | | Strat, I have never said oot. well, now I have typed it once. its a more eastern thing.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
| [Head banger] Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:18:56 AM | |
|
Strat, I have never said oot. well, now I have typed it once. its a more eastern thing.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:23:24 AM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:51:11 AM | |
|
Holy crap! I didn't realize it was that bad! You're in HILLBILLY HELL!!!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:58:09 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Ummmm....come to NW Tennessee sometime. I more than guarantee that you do NOT "have me beat!"
Dude, my city has two streetlights and there are more cows than people. The silo is probably the biggest structure in town while I work in the biggest building. Four stories.
I hear "youins" almost as much as "fixin' ta...." almost as much as I see camouflage as a staple of dress. Why do you think I travel so much? LOL!!
(ok, South Parkin' I go. G'night all).
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Oooohhh...I got you beat Guids. An ex-gf of mine, her mother who lives out near Pittsburgh, has a penchant for saying 'youins'. To me, this is like, beyond hillbilly.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | As long as she is gonna give me a new tuque afterwards! LOL!!!!
"Oh, I gotta waste to throw!"
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Ahhhhh....quit your kevetching and stop mumbling, will ya!! LOL I can't understand what you're typing...it's too fast for me to read! We need to turn you over to my old speech teacher, Miss. Kinney. She'll straighten you out, you hoser.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| |
|
Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
| |
That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edited at: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:28:54 AM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| [guidogodoy] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:58:09 AM | |
|
Ummmm....come to NW Tennessee sometime. I more than guarantee that you do NOT "have me beat!"
Dude, my city has two streetlights and there are more cows than people. The silo is probably the biggest structure in town while I work in the biggest building. Four stories.
I hear "youins" almost as much as "fixin' ta...." almost as much as I see camouflage as a staple of dress. Why do you think I travel so much? LOL!!
(ok, South Parkin' I go. G'night all).
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Darth_Painkiller_0870 from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:40:42 AM)| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Oooohhh...I got you beat Guids. An ex-gf of mine, her mother who lives out near Pittsburgh, has a penchant for saying 'youins'. To me, this is like, beyond hillbilly.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | As long as she is gonna give me a new tuque afterwards! LOL!!!!
"Oh, I gotta waste to throw!"
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Ahhhhh....quit your kevetching and stop mumbling, will ya!! LOL I can't understand what you're typing...it's too fast for me to read! We need to turn you over to my old speech teacher, Miss. Kinney. She'll straighten you out, you hoser.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| |
|
Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
| |
That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edited at: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:28:54 AM |
|
|
|
|
|
| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:40:42 AM | |
|
Oooohhh...I got you beat Guids. An ex-gf of mine, her mother who lives out near Pittsburgh, has a penchant for saying 'youins'. To me, this is like, beyond hillbilly.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:36:01 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | As long as she is gonna give me a new tuque afterwards! LOL!!!!
"Oh, I gotta waste to throw!"
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Ahhhhh....quit your kevetching and stop mumbling, will ya!! LOL I can't understand what you're typing...it's too fast for me to read! We need to turn you over to my old speech teacher, Miss. Kinney. She'll straighten you out, you hoser.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
| |
|
guidogodoy wrote: |
| |
I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| |
|
Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
| |
That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| |
|
Becks wrote: |
| |
Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| |
|
_strat_ wrote: |
| |
Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edited at: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:28:54 AM |
|
|
|
|
