Your "ideas" seem to consist entirely of meaningless extrapolation.I like to make lists with ideas.
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Poor spelling and lack of grammar?
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"Color" simply skips the French version and reflects the original Latin, as do "favor" and "rumor". In this, US English is more logical and consistent, otherwise we in the UK should have "tremour", "motour", "emperour" and "navigatour". The Frenchified "theatre", on the other hand, is closer to the Greek "theatros" than the US version is, as is "metre", but, by the same token, we should have "Petre" and "filtre", too, so again the US is more consistent. For "aluminum", however, there is no excuse whatever.colour----color
theatre----theater
aluminium----aluminum
and so on.
The US has a morbid fear of dipthongs. "Homoeopathy", "archaeology", "mediaeval" and "aesthetic" are all likewise victims.worst one of all:
Oestrogen----->Estrogen
I do not know why "Aluminum" is still used in some Chemistry books I have seen.
I thought Americans switched to "Aluminium" spelling now.
"Aluminium" is the standard all around the world.
No, even though they can spell "Americium" correctly, "aluminium" seems to be beyond them.
maybe in the same way we use playground english when we are amongst our friends, and standard english in a professional environment, we write the way we do on the internet.
what's the bfd?
and honestly speaking, i do not type very well and i am that lazy to capitalize letters.
what's the bfd?
and honestly speaking, i do not type very well and i am that lazy to capitalize letters.
I always assumed the simplification of English in the colonies was not a reflection on its pedigree, but a deliberate anti-English bastardization disguised as simplification.
You're IT!
I type with one finger, but I capitalise and correct myself in the interests of intelligibility and fluency.i do not type very well and i am that lazy to capitalize letters.
More anti-French than anti-English, as it happens.
Taking the time to use the language correctly (or at least make an attempt) when it isn't "absolutely necessary" is a matter of respect, for self & others.
Believe it or not, how you say something is in many ways as important as what you say. Disagree if you will, but it's a simple fact of socialization.
Believe it or not, how you say something is in many ways as important as what you say. Disagree if you will, but it's a simple fact of socialization.
i'm assuming you're british because we spell capitaliz/se differently.
what does capitalization have to do with fluency? when a word is read, it sounds the same. let's see... Apple or apple. yup, both sound the same. try it by reading it.
i'll give you intelligibilty. if you think i'm not intelligent because i don't capitalize, i could live with that. i'm on macrumors for entertainment. if you think i'm an idiot, that's fine by me. i don't know you so what's the difference?
the whole spelling thing doesn't bother me too much. when people are literate, they read words as a whole and aren't trying to decode each phoneme. english is a difficult language. they're are so many exceptions to the rules. not everyone is educated. there are more important things to worry about imo.
The thing is that aluminum was discovered by an American who named it as such. After a great number of years, he realized that it didn't quite fit with the de facto naming convention for elements, so he renamed aluminum to aluminium. However the first name was already in the American lexicon (hence why both Yanks and Canadians use it) before the updated name was published in other English speaking countries, so technically the American version is the original name, and Aluminium is the "updated" name. So I think both are correct, but use aluminium to screw with people I know.
Also, get over the whole "ise" becoming "ize" we do it here in the US and it works fine, and is more phonetic, although I would hate to see the USS Enterprize (as that WAS the British Ship, and Enterprise is the US/Federation ship).
I'm all for removing needless letters, like the 'oe' and 'ae' that are use in English. There is no need for them aside from nostalgia for the older Greek or Roman words. Move forward, and stop clinging on to archaic spelling.
Also, it drives me nuts to hear "maths" or "sport". Seriously, math is not plural and sports is not singular. And it is "film", not "fil-im".
However, Theatre is the correct word, Theater is a bastardization of the word, and the US needs to adopt the "x" for words like connexion instead of connection, again, more phonetic.
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Intelligence...Shift key...intelligence...Shift key. Nope, I'm not seeing a connection.
An odd choice, especially on this site, since they are likely to mean different things, which is the point.
I hope you are not confusing "intelligible" with "intelligent".
I am pretty relaxed about other people's spelling, but if your English is mangled and difficult to read with fluency simply because you are being lazy, then I think that reflects badly on your willingness to put any effort into your communication, which in turn is discourteous to your reader.
I don't think anyone has said that. The argument is against people who can't be bothered to use proper English. Not those who can't.
how ironic. your post was very intelligible and i misread that. i guess i am an idiot. lol!!!
still, i admit i am lazy. i also think you have understood everything i've written.
Spelling and grammatical conventions are just that, conventions. They are somewhat arbitrary, and particularly in English, often downright perverse. Even so, those of us who value the written word attempt to stick with these conventions because they make written communications so much more efficient and effective. Dispensing with the rules is completely arbitrary, and demands that a reader make an extra effort to figure out what is being communicated.