English vs Amerenglish, split from - How to get started (tutorial)

[Neuromancer]

Okay this a little off topic but

From this point on, any Brits out there have to remember that all spellings are in the vowel-deprived format of AmerEnglish, where the word "colour" has had the "u" beaten out of it to become "color".  So now, yes, you've guessed it, we're going to add colour to the page, well, some purists will argue that it's not a colour as such, it's grey...spelt "gray", urgh....

I ALWAYS spell things like that wrong

My charecters in D&D when I was a teenaer always Wore Armour not armor.  LOL

And Grey/gray has always confused the hell out of me.  E seems like the proper vowel to use, but you say A is the amerienglish one?  hmm.  Maybe I read to much as a child. LOL

[Ed]

LOL, you poor confused person, you   Apparently, it's all Teddy Roosevelt's fault, but I could be wrong about that.  I was told that he ordered somebody to simplify the English language spellings, but I personally think most of the spellings are more confusing.  For example, a 'check' in Amerenglish can be a pattern similar to tartan, or a sweeping pen stroke, or a money order, or making sure of something.  Whereas in good old fashioned English-english, it would be - check, tick, cheque, and check - so only one double meaning, instead of the four meanings you've got   Same with 'tire' - it means 'running out of energy' and 'a rubber ring fitted to a wheel' in Amerenglish, whereas in English-english, the latter is spelt 'tyre'   Weird....

[Neuromancer]

Or Welfare/Dole  welfare is someones, being their physical welfare, etc.  Dole is a handout
welfare is not a supplement.

I was familiar with the cheque being a bank draft, but not familiar with a Tyre being on a car.

Then of course you have the hillbillie dictionary in which

TAR -you got four of them on your vehicle.

What about phospahates?  In parts of America (the real parts ) We call it soda, in the mid western dialect (mostly pennsyl-tucky, West virginia Ohio area)  they call it Pop (and never Warsh your car with Pop it will eat the paint!) 

Yet down south they call it coke!?!?  Uh, what if I want a coke, do I ask for a coke coke? 


I think it was in Red Mars that I read something about a group of scientists arguing.  One said Its just a matter of semantics.  The other flipped out, and said of course it is.  the humans main advantage over other species is our communication.  Semantics is EVERYTHING!  Was a really good point.

Would the planet be as interesting if we all spoke/ spelled the same way?


No matter the dialects of English, its french that realy pisses me off.  All the other Languages (maybe not true russian)  sound like the are spelled (IE phoentecially spelled)


But yes in French inspelled Oui.  (sounds like WE but spelled like OOOYUHEEE)  WTF?  And an X should sound like an X not an OUS

Blech!!!

[Troglodyte]

I guess asking for some chips and a fag would net you a bag of crips and a sore arse

Going back to things vehicular: hood instead of bonnet; trunk instead of boot; and gas rather than petrol. I ask you

[Ed]

I'd imagine it would depend on where you were asking

I've always wondered why the engine compartment lid on a car should be called a 'bonnet' though - a bonnet is a hat FFS   'Hood' seems a little more fitting, but still strange.  Petrol is a better name than gas though - at least you know for sure that you're talking about petrol, and not methane

Another thing that puzzles me is why we drive on the wrong side of the road compared to practically every other country in the world?  It must have been left over from the days of the horse and cart, mustn't it?  But if that's so, why does America drive on the right?  The Pilgrim Fathers came from Blighty, so you would think they would have taken those sorts of customs with them.  If anything, you would think with Britain being a sea-faring nation we would go by the passing rules of ships, but nope - that's to the right too.  It just doesn't make sense 

And why the hell do you call the road the pavement and the pavement the sidewalk?  I don't suppose you use the term 'path' or 'footpath' at all? 

Still, you came damn close to speaking German a couple or three hundred years ago (ish).  English was only passed as the national tongue by a very slim margin of votes - I think it was only one or two votes in it, at one point.  Dread to think how the two world wars would have turned out if American had spoken German as their mother tongue

[Troglodyte]

Mein Gott!

And another thing: pants are worn UNDER the trousers 

[Ed]

That reminds me - I was reading something a while back, and it said that back a hundred years ago and more, women's undies didn't meet up in the middle, so their panties were basically crotchless - hence the appeal of the Can-can dance 

Da-da-di-di-di-da-da...whoah!

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