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# he's eating a tin can
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:31, archived)
# Oh, right
well that's OK then
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:33, archived)
# Especially when you consider
where the young lady had the tin can a few minutes before...
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:37, archived)
# Crivvens!
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:38, archived)
# well, since everyone is in a pedantic mood
I'll clarify that it's aluminum :)
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:38, archived)
# Is that similar to
aluminium but with a black top?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:50, archived)
# is "aluminium" another of those words that Brits and Yanks spell (and pronounce) differently?
can't be arsed to google it
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:52, archived)
# It is
although unusually it's one that you lot got right
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:55, archived)
# "you lot got right"
we aren't communicating well here
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:56, archived)
# haha, yeah, I could have put that better
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:58, archived)
# Oh I dunno
I thought the "unusually" bit hit the mark ;)
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:59, archived)
# reading between the lines of these obscure remarks,
I have to assume that you (UK citizens) think that any different spelling of a word in another country is "wrong." If so, we don't see it that way.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:02, archived)
# it's a labor of love. It makes us quite colorful really
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:08, archived)
# There's a catalog of differences
we shouldn't over analyze or lose our sense of humor, nor should we try to maneuver around it, we should instead find center ground
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:17, archived)
# that's how I see it--but I've been scolded too often by Brits and the like for using American spellings
(not that it would change me :D)
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:53, archived)
# Quite a lot of them make sense, and are due to deliberate spelling reforms that took root,
mostly proposed by Noah Webster, the Webster's dictionary guy. For some reason, the reforms on long, impressive-sounding technical words were generally accepted, while the reforms on ordinary short words (like getting rid of the silent e on have, live and give) weren't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_spelling_reform
Some of the differences are arbitrary, but it's difficult to find American spellings that are less rational than British ones.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 18:11, archived)
# I was going to say that
but it doesnt sound as good :-)
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:50, archived)