Poll: English or American spelling?
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I use English, because I am English. Like most English people.
[small]Because you're a fat, lazy and stupid American.
Yes, that was a joke.[/small]
You hate the english style because advocates of it seem to have a prickeshness (at least that is what I assume you are trying to say) about them. Right, interesting variation of racism there, prejudice against language? Anyway it isn't really us "adding a pointless u", more you taking a 'u' away.Kiutu said:
[small]Because you're a fat, lazy and stupid American.
Yes, that was a joke.[/small]
Have you read any of the other responses? Hate to say it man, but you sound entirely reasonable. You losing your touch?MaxTheReaper said:
I use American because I learned English in America.
If i had a choice from the beginning I would still have picked American, because it seems to end up with me having to write less, like plow vs. plough, or (and I'm not 100% sure on this) daft vs. draught.
But then again, if I'm writing a large essay and I need to get in a number of pages minimum, the English spelling would be more convenient. I have to ask my English teacher next year.
If i had a choice from the beginning I would still have picked American, because it seems to end up with me having to write less, like plow vs. plough, or (and I'm not 100% sure on this) daft vs. draught.
But then again, if I'm writing a large essay and I need to get in a number of pages minimum, the English spelling would be more convenient. I have to ask my English teacher next year.
LOL learn to take a joke I know Wales is no longer a principality. I just was using the guy who missed out Wales to have a dig at Welsh pride.Lukeje said:
First off, in America, Autumn is not some weird British word for Fall, it's a synonym. I see both words used regularly.
I use American because i'm American. I also understand that letters and words are arbitrary symbols representing arbitrary sounds that we decided to give meaning to. So none is truly better or worse. However, if I were to evaluate objectively, I would say that sometimes the American is better, sometimes the British is. For example, (And to delve into the wacky world of pronunciation as well) British say, "Herb" while Americans say, "Erb". I have to go with the Brits here, in the words of Eddie Izzard, "Because there's a fucking H in it". Meanwhile Americans spell it, "Center" and Brits spell it, "Centre". Unless the Brits are talking about the kind of gun the engineer builds in TF2, that spelling is horribly unintuitive and silly. So basically, both have there strengths and weaknesses.
To go on a related tangent, I think that there's another interesting language trade-off. British language has developed a certain sense of class about it, mainly because America is the melting pot, and looks to other cultures for inspiration in a lot of things. This is in exchange for every British term for Car related thing, used by everyday people, being inferior to the American term. Or maybe that's the trade off for American cars never being able to turn properly. Or consolation for having to tolerate NASCAR.
I use American because i'm American. I also understand that letters and words are arbitrary symbols representing arbitrary sounds that we decided to give meaning to. So none is truly better or worse. However, if I were to evaluate objectively, I would say that sometimes the American is better, sometimes the British is. For example, (And to delve into the wacky world of pronunciation as well) British say, "Herb" while Americans say, "Erb". I have to go with the Brits here, in the words of Eddie Izzard, "Because there's a fucking H in it". Meanwhile Americans spell it, "Center" and Brits spell it, "Centre". Unless the Brits are talking about the kind of gun the engineer builds in TF2, that spelling is horribly unintuitive and silly. So basically, both have there strengths and weaknesses.
To go on a related tangent, I think that there's another interesting language trade-off. British language has developed a certain sense of class about it, mainly because America is the melting pot, and looks to other cultures for inspiration in a lot of things. This is in exchange for every British term for Car related thing, used by everyday people, being inferior to the American term. Or maybe that's the trade off for American cars never being able to turn properly. Or consolation for having to tolerate NASCAR.
But surely the English makes more sense?Vuljatar said:
I mean, the American spelling of "favour" is "favor". To me that looks like it should be pronounced 'FAH-VOHR' or something. The 'u' is what changes the sound of the last syllable.
Also the word "favor" (and "color" for that matter) looks very harsh and crude in my opinion. =]
I would agree with you only if the word was pronounced as, "Fav-Our" (Our pronounced the same as Hour)DuplicateValue said:
By contrast, you could say that the British spelling looks pretentious. I think what it comes down to is that if you wanted to find the best spelling, it proberally would have been, "faver"
Lets not forget Canadian spelling, which is 45% American 45% British 5% French, and 5% Crazy shit. Its the best just because we use the words Quiggly, Toque, and Mickey, and 40-Pounder.