urge to kill rising... (a proof read rant)

[Entsuropi]

Never underestimate the black market, har.

[Master Gopher]

Perhaps that's why so much mind-grating American spelling keeps haunting me still.
*rattles collection box*
This is for JP to buy a gun... uhh, no, I'm feeling quite alright thanks. Er, why are you running away? No really!

[Master Xaio]

Yeah, buy JP a gun or three, he'll no doubt shoot himself whilst trying to manouveur into a 'cool' stance, and then you, me, and Bones can steal them, and its all good.  Of course, Bones is more than likely to shoot himself in the foot or something too, but yeah.  We'll get to *that* later.

[JP Dogberry]

Who said anything about guns? You can shoot a crossbow. Or a Catapult.

Oh, and you two: Make Bones post here already. If he refuses, sing "Bones, Bones, Bones, Bones, Don't you love to suck the marrow?" at him until he agrees.

[Oseleon]

That's really too bad.

Stupid Americans.  It's too bad consistency doesn't count for anything, eh?

Americans have more Nuclear warheads, we get to decide the grammer.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah, maybe if you spelled things correctly we'd spell like you.

[The Jade Knight]

I'm an American.

I just happen to dislike some aspects of American spelling and grammar.

Out of curiosity, how many Americans here are thoroughly bothered when they read British Lit because of the spelling and punctuation?  Anyone hold Tolkien's English against him?


(tempted to call anyone who does a git.  Heh)

[JP Dogberry]

I'm not.

Anyone who does is a git.

And no, you wouldn't copy us if we spelled stuff correctly, because we spell stuff correctly and you don't copy us.

It's called "English" not "American" by default, the poms are right.

[Entsuropi]

Unless it's by microsoft, in which case it's 'American English'.

I always search for the 'Proper English' selection when I see that, but it's never there

[Jelly_Belly]

It annoys me to all heck, but I've been doing technical editing and I have felt a strong urge to put periods and commas outside of quote marks because of the technicality of the programming language. I have fought the urge to use single quotes, though. I don't think that all genres will move over to this, but I think that technical fields have started and will continue to do this. Just pick up a programming book.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

And no, you wouldn't copy us if we spelled stuff correctly, because we spell stuff correctly and you don't copy us.

circular logic doesn't prove anything.

We don't copy you because you're WRONG. extra unnecessary letters and others out of order. What foolishness is this.

anyway, it's my firm belief, due to the political supremacy of American, that American is what will be spoken in the future.

Also because it's less retarded.

[Entsuropi]

Half of the world learned English from us British. The indians use English - thanks to us. Thats 1 billion people right there, boyo. One suspects that we win.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I said political supremacy, not current numbers.

See, I'm talking about future development. As history moves on, people are mroe and more going to have to do business with the US. And the US is notorious for demanding business on the US's terms.

Thinks will change, buddy.

[Entsuropi]

/me drops the f-bomb and watches the english language dissolve

Fagg0t!

[Archon]

Entropy, hate to break it to you, but that isn't the F-bomb.