This is sounding more and more racist (or ethno-centric) to me...it's just a bunch of spellings. You never have to use them, ever! Just put that extra 'u' in color, and stick an 's' in colorize, and flip the 'e' and 'r' in center and meter.
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jack & Naree Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:31 AM To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Anglicised English British English
Well I don't want to live in an Americanised world; I'd rather take arms against a sea of illiterate yanks, than suffer the slings and arrows of their nauseating makey-uppy drawl. (and yes I do have American friends!) I know it's not going to feed the starving children in Africa, but I simply
can't feckin' stand seeing the word "center" and "color" and hearing people raising the intonation at the end of their sentences. American-English is like a giant linguistic fingernail down the English blackboard. On 19/09/05, Giuseppe DAngelo pippudoz@yahoo.it wrote:
I love these kinds of debates - the ones that can go around in circles until the cows come home. Sure, I get pissed off (AE pissed) at american spellings as much as the next bloke - but it doesn't mean I can't follow what's going on - nor does it mean that it will ever influence my
pristine,
strawberries and cream, Oxbridge, very best of the Queen's english - with
a
name like Giuseppe d'Angelo - you wouldn't expect otherwise would you?
I love the fact that there are a couple of thousand words that might be found in wikipedia with two spellings (both equally acceptable). It makes
it
easier for me to point to my thick skulled paisani and say to them: don't worry if a word can be spelled two or three (or five or seven) ways in Sicilian - it's the same word and we all understand it regardless of how
you
want to spell it - it's not as big an issue as you think - look at
English!
- the language of the lower orders under Norman rule now rules the world -
but the varieties are as many as teams in the English FA. It hasn't
mattered
one jot - there are more important things to worry about - like who will
win
out of the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles this Saturday at the MCG and
will Bazza be rubbed out for a week? And has there truly been a leak in
the
brownlow voting? Now they're important questions! Salutamu pippu d'angelo
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