[Wikipedia-l] Re: Anglicised English British English

[James R. Johnson]

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.

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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jack & Naree
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:31 AM
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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 at 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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