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Let`s have another 500 posts on the subject of who copied who`s shirt color with prior shirt colors of other companies, shall we?
Only Americans spell it that way the rest of the world spell it the correct way
Nice gray shirts! Much better than those awful royal blue ones.
but with exactly the same pose + smile...
Love these comments.. Posted to an American website about a company headquarted in America that does more business in America than any other single nation.Only Americans spell it that way the rest of the world spell it the correct way
swingerofbirch
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I worked Apple Store Online chat support. It's a sales job, and a tough one. 4 chats at once, 15 second response time required, and 4% sales (which is high given the number of prank chats you get). And as far as I could tell no one who worked those positions actually worked for Apple. We were all at home contractors through Arise (there may be other contract companies as well). There may be some internal employees who do it, not sure. But if you look at Apple's language, they usually say Apple advisors or specialists, never employees. And no one ever got a nice t-shirt like that.
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Actually, the current vogue for claiming that British spellings are all "-ise" is only about 20 years old.
The Oxford English Dictionary still gives "-ize" as the preferred spelling, with "-ise" as the variant.
The problem lies in the fact that while most English words of this type were spelled "ize", but it didn't matter if they were spelled "-ise", there was a small list of exceptions that were NEVER to be spelled "ize" (because of their etymological origin).
The rule of thumb came into being that if you were in doubt, it was better to use "ise" than "ize". And so the variation became enshrined, just around the time when computer spell-checkers came into being.
There's an episode of the TV detective show "Morse" from the 80s, where he thinks a suicide note is false because "no Oxford man would spell 'realize' with an S."
Most American spellings are ones that used to be common in the UK in the 18th and 9th centuries.
So let's have no "You're wrong" type comments from either side, thanks.
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Actually, the current vogue for claiming that British spellings are all "-ise" is only about 20 years old.
The Oxford English Dictionary still gives "-ize" as the preferred spelling, with "-ise" as the variant.
The problem lies in the fact that while most English words of this type were spelled "ize", but it didn't matter if they were spelled "-ise", there was a small list of exceptions that were NEVER to be spelled "ize" (because of their etymological origin).
The rule of thumb came into being that if you were in doubt, it was better to use "ise" than "ize". And so the variation became enshrined, just around the time when computer spell-checkers came into being.
There's an episode of the TV detective show "Morse" from the 80s, where he thinks a suicide note is false because "no Oxford man would spell 'realize' with an S."
Most American spellings are ones that used to be common in the UK in the 18th and 9th centuries.
So let's have no "You're wrong" type comments from either side, thanks.
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hot?
Really? Why has this stereotype girl become the new hot? She certainly doesn't look like Marilyn Monroe. Not even Jessica Alba hot. She kinda looks tomboyish and plain jane girl next door to me.
Not trying to criticize, just curious as to the "societal shift". Obviously her look is "what's hot" or she would not be modelling in the ad....but I don't see it myself...maybe I'm too old?
-Iamthinking
Really? Why has this stereotype girl become the new hot? She certainly doesn't look like Marilyn Monroe. Not even Jessica Alba hot. She kinda looks tomboyish and plain jane girl next door to me.
Not trying to criticize, just curious as to the "societal shift". Obviously her look is "what's hot" or she would not be modelling in the ad....but I don't see it myself...maybe I'm too old?
-Iamthinking
swingerofbirch
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i work for apple (indirect) and i got a nice t-shirt when i finished the training
Through Kelly? I got a t-shirt through them, as well, though strangely it was a few months after I left the job that they finally sent it.
I totally agree, she isn't anything like a Marilyn Monroe. Plane Jane type of girls are my type
You spelled "localizations" wrong...
Ah yes if I was an American. But I am Australian. So it's correct for me.
You Americans love your Z's. ZZZ enough
Go for a walk. Open a window. There are real women out there who's name doesn't end in ".jpg"
Given the number of kids basically killing themselves to look like coked up skin and bones supermodels! R sitting on their morbidly obese asses eating junk food, I say it's good that Apple uses healthy sized plain Jane/John types
Can be a mixture of two things;
A. Apple doesn't want to put a supermodel in the picture, so female customers who are "plain Jane" feel like they can relate to the specialist and no feel like ugly Betty next to them.
And
B. The people who call her hot are desperate. I will say she's attractive, but not hot.
I feel like I'm on that episode of the Office...
Or they.. *gasp* have a different opinion than you?! It must be hard to believe because you're so great, but it is possible.
Supermodels / magazine covers look like drag queens.
Let`s have another 500 posts on the subject of who copied who`s shirt color with prior shirt colors of other companies, shall we?
Everyone knows Apple invented blue before Samsung did.