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[Joshi]

Noted, I generally tend to know about these things, "check" caught me slightly off guard.

[Thrik]

I get the impression that the Americans went through their words and changed the spellings just to make a point.

 

I mean, they spell most of our "ised" words (realised, specialised, etc) with a Z, which seems like a completely unnecessary change. Then there's the obvious "colour" ones, which while may be more convenient to write, once again introduce unnecessary confusion and incompatibility.

[Smon]

I get the impression that the Americans went through their words and changed the spellings just to make a point.

 

I mean, they spell most of our "ised" words (realised, specialised, etc) with a Z, which seems like a completely unnecessary change. Then there's the obvious "colour" ones, which while may be more convenient to write, once again introduce unnecessary confusion and incompatibility.

Americans have and will always one goal with everything: Make it easier and cooler.

 

And the only letter cooler than X is Z, so that explains that.

 

...because we're awezome.

[Fealiks]

When has can't ever had an R in it? "Can't" is an abbreiviation of "cannot" or "can" and "not". The abbreiviation works simply by taking the "can" adding a "`" and then the T at the end. R was never in there.

I didn't say it ever did have an R in it, I said it should, you winkle. "CARn't" is how we pronounce it, although you're right, since it's an abbreviation I am wrong. Even if it had an R in it, that would be tricky for people with rhetoric accents such as Americans to pronounce.

[Thrik]

... I'm pretty sure that's how the Americans pronounce it too. Spelling isn't always dictated by pronunciation, otherwise we'd have no end of ridiculously spelt words. For example, a lot of this country pronounces 'bath' as 'barth', while in places such as where I reside (Nottinghamshire) it is completely not pronounced like that at all.

[Fealiks]

I'm with you. I pronounce "Bath" "Bath" and "Glass" "Glass", although I still pronounce "arse" "arse" (which really isn't a question of pronuctiation as "ass" and "arse" are technically seperate words).

[Joshi]

I get the impression that the Americans went through their words and changed the spellings just to make a point.

 

I'd assume (although I wouldn't take my assumption as fact) that after the whole independance thing, they wanted to make themselves more independant by spelling words differently... or something.

 

But yes Fealiks, if we were to spell words as they were pronounced, we'd have no end of oddly spelt words. Whilst it is true that America pronounces words differently (because they have a different accent), if we were to spell names in that way we'd have to have different spellings for the Scottish, Welsh, Irish, hell, different parts of england would spell it differently because of dialects. After living for 2 years in Newcastle I'm pretty sure yes should be spelt "Aye".

[Fealiks]

I didn't mean all words should be spelt as they were pronounced, I was being hypothetical to stress the difference in our accents. Otherwise, the people who invent assign characters for the pronuctiation section in the Oxford Dictionary would be put out of business. What I said was similar to saying "Some parts of America should spell "Mirror" as "Meer" ", not being serious, just a different way of getting my point across.

 

And, Joshi, would you please take that green pixel out of your avatar?!

[Joshi]

No, it's meant to be there, as explained before... what don't you get about that?

[Fealiks]

When taking photos of the sun, does the lens flare usually have a tiny little picture-hijacking spot that's brighter than the very soul of jesus?

[Samnmax221]

Not if you lock him in a closet

[Fealiks]

His soul is inside him so how is locking him in a closet going to do anything? You want to pin him to a cross. 'Course, he's gonna come back, he's immortal...

 

"The Bible Vol. II: The Cockroach Messiah"

[Gabez]

I like your avatar, Vikinor. What is the meaning behind it?

 

I like your avatar, Das Mole? Who is the person? Where was the photo taken?

[Alien426]

I like your avatar, Vikinor. What is the meaning behind it?

He was a skater boy

She said "See'ya later boy"

He wasn't good enough for her

[Joshi]

When taking photos of the sun, does the lens flare usually have a tiny little picture-hijacking spot that's brighter than the very soul of jesus?

 

Apparently

[DarthAve]

I'm not saying my avatar is the best. But... Hedi Slimane does look extraordinarily hot in it ~babble and drool~

[Fealiks]

Apparently

 

I did say '>while taking a photo, not creating a lens flare in photoshop. Photoshop is flawed!

[Joshi]

Who ever said it was meant to be a picture of the sun? Infact why can't my avatar have that green speck in it?

 

Plus it tends to be the case that these filters are based on some kind of reality.

[RicardoLuigi...]

I like your avatar, Das Mole? Who is the person? Where was the photo taken?

 

person = myself. hence, sexxxiness.

location = the park down the street.

[Fealiks]

Joshi which looks better? The beautiful one:

 

Or the toss one with the single pixel of reflection which isn't possible (so there):

 

Edit:

 

The first one is supposed to have those artifacts.... honest...

[Joshi]

Isn't possible? Do you have proof to back up that claim? Was I even going for any realism? Do I care?

[DarthAve]

person = myself. hence, sexxxiness.

location = the park down the street.

That park is very pretty.

[RicardoLuigi...]

yeah, it's nice. on occasion there's a lot of goose poo everywhere, though. =p

[Fealiks]

Joshi I do have proof to back up my claim. I left it in my other pants. Trousers. T-shirt! Speaking of which, you have replaced that brilliant discworld quote with your t-shirt website, which is awesome, but you could have kept the quote.

[Joshi]

It got old and no one who hadn't read the book got what it meant. Plus I thought it was time for a change, and I need the advertising space.

 

And again, you seem to be under the deluded impression that I care about that green pixel in my avatar. I didn't care when Ray pointed out my old animated signature moved down by a pixel before fading.