I don't know what's more alarming - that I never knew my friends overseas spelled it 'sceptical', or that I never noticed Scepticalscribe's spelling. Either way, I feel shame.
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I don't know what's more alarming - that I never knew my friends overseas spelled it 'sceptical', or that I never noticed Scepticalscribe's spelling. Either way, I feel shame.
In the Portuguese Wikipedia space, you have writers from Portugal and writers from Brazil (or Brasil as they spell it). There are different spelling conventions between Continental Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. That can be a problem when different people are writing in the same articles. They have reached a compromise that they will respect each other’s spelling conventions. They will use their own when writing new material but they will not try to “correct” the spellings of existing material. Ultimately these differences are, in part, arbitrary and as long as the meaning is not lost, it is not worth fighting over.
The spelling without the u is American. British spellings are used around the world, just like American ones are.
Purple is Canadian spelling, which uses ‘rumour.’ Red is British spelling. Yellow is Australian spelling
. I hope you realize how your argument is pretty short sighted. But this isn’t commentary on whether MacRumors should be changed or not.It's an American company unless your main goal is to argue endlessly on the internet.
That doesn't matter. As I said before, I don't expect Americans to spell colour with a u, and they don't expect me to spell colour without a u. This is an incredibly simple concept. There is nothing "humble" about thinking that just because you come from another country, someone's website in another part of the world should be spelled the way your country spells it. That's actually quite arrogant.
If you want to coexist in a global community you might start by learning that different countries spell things differently, and that's OK.
Ultimately I know you won't be convinced, but I'll just have faith that most reasonable people understand that you let people write in their native language as long as you can understand it.
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In Britain what is called a 'wank' in America is called a 'wang' . . . so what is the mental version of that called in these forums [err, fora]? Probably plain old 'mental masturbation'.
I don't think it is. Former is a verb, latter is a noun.
In American English, the “wang” is the object of the “wank”.In Britain what is called a 'wank' in America is called a 'wang' . . . so what is the mental version of that called in these forums [err, fora]? Probably plain old 'mental masturbation'.
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Ah, well, at 61 years of age I am always ready to learn something new: and, especially as I run a language school I will now be able to make sure my pupils know the difference between 'wank' and 'wang': in fact, thinking about things I might call that lesson plan 'one long schlong' to avoid confusion.
Ah, so one wanks with one's wang . . . 'tis never too late to learn.
I made a silmlar thread here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-rumours-in-british-english-en-uk.2189370/
As metres/meters and all that decimal crap was thought up by French revolutionaries, I cannot wait until my country, Scotland, becomes independent and reverts to 'useful' units such as shillings, feet, Scots miles [these should not be confused with 'Scotch' miles, which are units calibrated in glasses of whisky], ells, pints Scots [1 pint Scots = 4 English pints = 5 US pints: marvellous for beer drinking], after all, even if nothing else, we really will be 'independent', so independent in fact that the rest of the world will be unable to do business with us.
As metres/meters and all that decimal crap was thought up by French revolutionaries, I cannot wait until my country, Scotland, becomes independent and reverts to 'useful' units such as shillings, feet, Scots miles [these should not be confused with 'Scotch' miles, which are units calibrated in glasses of whisky], ells, pints Scots [1 pint Scots = 4 English pints = 5 US pints: marvellous for beer drinking], after all, even if nothing else, we really will be 'independent', so independent in fact that the rest of the world will be unable to do business with us.
I’d love nothing more than to see that happen, fingers crossed for you all up there.
Easily sorted by giving the English a vote!
Seriously, the Scots would be independent tomorrow.
Re this thread, it’s an American site so rumors. Same way that Fleetwood Mac are an English band so it’s Rumours.
Seriously, the Scots would be independent tomorrow.
Re this thread, it’s an American site so rumors. Same way that Fleetwood Mac are an English band so it’s Rumours.
So, which is better: Fleetwood Mac or Fleetwood PC?
It would be better for England as well as Scotland if Scotland were independent. Just as long as there is no racism in either direction, and mutual respect between 2 sovereign nations.
What's standard English? American English deviated from Standard English after the United States of America was founded.
And the US split from England before spelling settled into what the earlier poster would consider “standard”. Look at spelling in the 18th century and you will see all kinds of different spellings. There is no official standard spelling in English as there is no official standard body. There is just common usage and it does not agree 100% across all English speakers. If there were a standards body maybe we would cleanup some of the spelling complexities (which might decide to remove some superfluous “u”’s). I’m looking at you “debt”.
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If there was a "u" in "debt", it would make it "debut". 😁
When I see "Wang", I think king, as in 王 but that's not for everyone.In Britain what is called a 'wank' in America is called a 'wang' . . . so what is the mental version of that called in these forums [err, fora]? Probably plain old 'mental masturbation'.
I'm being sarcastic ... but then again I'm British, so.