On 6/12/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 12 Jun 2006 at 23:48, "Death Phoenix" originaldeathphoenix@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
I tend to call it Commonwealth English, except when something gets me really annoyed, and then I'm liable to call it Proper Bloody English.
PBE's a good one.
Pompous Bullshit English?
It (British/Commonwealth English) tends, in my (probably biased) experience, to be used by people trying to put on airs and sound pretentiously superior, like real estate developers naming a development "Harbour Centre" when it's nowhere near a harbo(u)r nor particularly close to the center/re of anything important, or fashion magazines ("Glamour") that desperately want to show how elegant they believe themselves to be, or snooty academics who would rather be involved with an "encyclopaedia" than a commoner's "encyclopedia".
I find it especially bothersome to encounter the word "paedophile", since I hardly think pedophiles deserve to be dignified with a pretentiously dressed-up spelling.
And I find that PBE is used by people who actually know English as it is properly used.
Unfortunately, having written in both Canadian and Australian English as well as the others, I guess that means I'm a convict who lives in an igloo, drinks tea with the pinky extended, and carries a gun with him at all times.