Re: OMG short vent

EldonB123@xxxxxxx wrote:

On Feb 12, 2:55 pm, s...@xxxxxxxxxx (Ian) wrote:
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Well, she reappeared this week and hurled abuse at an old woman in
Australia who frequently chides others for their spelling errors, which
infuriates some but they never say s openly.

Chiding people for spelling errors? You mean different people who
post in British, Canadian, Australian and American English? How the
hell would most of them even know whether to use an S or a Z, or to
insert an extra U in order to placate someone?

I never followed her somewhat uninteresting contributions closely enough
to see how she did the correcting, but I'd guess she left the
savior: saviour
ax, axe
Tire: tyre
sort of national differences alone but pounced on anything like
deffinitely, forbiden, Farenheit and so on.
She only tripped me up once, with my spelling of whisky - i'd typed
whiskey and my spellchecker approved of it. It also accepts the first
spelling, so I'm unsure of how I stand on this one. I get round it by
always saying Scotch!

Bwahahaha! That sounds sort of like the Spanish, who look down on the
Argentinians, who look down on the Chileans and Central Americans, who
look down on the Mexicans ... for their corruption of the language.

Hmmmm, yes, I suppose what I hear my housekeeper and her sister
chattering on in, is a kind of Spanish but I always call it mexican.
Similarly, a good number of the more meticulous speakers and writers in
Britain look down on American usage and spelling, as though it is
intrinsically inferior and incorrect . I'm happy in both,
and on moving here adapted the US spelling immediately.

Oh, and perhaps "Dutch" and Gita can tell us what people in Holland
think of Afrikaans. ;-)

I may be wrong but I think it is a form of Dutch, probably verey much
altered and with different spellings and new words, as it evolved
away from the original Dutch settlers' speech.


--
Ian. I knew he was broken, because he spoke in broken English.
(Spike Milligan)
Ft Worth, TX

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