Meh, I was referring to the fact that the official language is that way, only America uses otherwise.Andrew J. wrote:Erm...that's not how it's spelled here, so I don't haveAdmiral Valdemar wrote:Why not go the whole hog and speak l33t liek Jeff K?Andrew J. wrote:What about sticking vowels next to other vowels where they clearly do not belong: encyclopaedia, aeon, etc?
Writing dates numerically is just like writing the whole thing out: September 11th, 2001, thus 9/11/01. (Saying "The eleventh of September" is passive voice, and therefore wimpy.)
And pudding is a dessert with a gooey consistency, not some sort of meat, dammit!
R u afraid ull luk sily??!?!?
The English language is as it is because it was made that way for hundreds of years. Hell, why not go back to pure phonetic spelling again where any word that sounds the same can be spelt different in one sentence at least twice. People did it all the time.
English is officially spelt the way it is, deal with it.
to deal with it. Americans are just fine with eons and encyclopedias.
Oh, and that reminds me; another thing that annoys me (not related the whole English-American dialect thing, necessarily) is words that have multiple past-tense versions. Spelled spelt, spilled spilt, and I can never remember if both are correct or if I'm just imagining things.
Uh...there aren't any places where it's legal to shoot an Irishman, are there?
And English is like that with the past tense clauses etc. Really this should all be understoof in secondary education, as bad as English can be at times, I much prefer it to other languages.
