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.
On 6/13/06, 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".
And, you know, english people too.
On 6/13/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
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.
Lol. That has to be a joke, yeah?
Steve
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.
Death Phoenix wrote:
On 6/12/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 12 Jun 2006 at 23:48, "Death Phoenix" originaldeathphoenix@gmail.com wrote:
PBE's a good one.
Pompous Bullshit English? ...
And I find that PBE is used by people who actually know English as it is properly used.
Hang on a sec.
We get a lot of ignorant Americans "correcting" colour to color, or -ise to -ize. If they're arrogant as well as ignorant, they may claim that colour and -ise are "wrong". That's wrong, of course.
But at the same time, we can't claim that any of British/Canadian/ Australian/Indian/Commonwealth English are uniquely "correct", either, or that American English is "wrong". We'll never get past these dialect wars as long as anyone (even the English, whose name is indeed on the language) is insisting that only their variant is correct.
Language evolves. The language used in the UK today is not spoken or spelled the same way it was in 1776, either.
On 13/06/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
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.
I believe a small number of people not blessed with US citizenship have been known to use it, but I guess the inflated pomposity is just the foreign inferiority complex kicking in.