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Post by Kmylove on Jan 28, 2007 6:12:41 GMT -5
*alert, alert, mod abusing powers! Mod tracing my IP, Heeeeeeeeeeeeelp!!!!* You don't need bribe for customs, you can come in with only your ID card *darn, why am I giving a killer precious information?* *hmm, wait a minute, you're lying, you can't trace my IP! I dare you to say the first two numbers of my IP! Simple mods can't see IP's, only Global if the admin lets them. Wee, I'm safe, for now ;D* Actually, us Mods can actually see IP Addresses. There's no escape! ;D (By the way, the bribe's to ensure that I'm not arrested for carrying an offensive weapon. ) Edit: 89! oh darn...those are correct... (btw, edit them out, we can never know who'll be reading this in the future ) *packs suitcases to move to some remote country where she can't be tracked* lol, whenever we begin posting a thread, we sure have a way of going offtopic
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 28, 2007 6:14:22 GMT -5
Actually, us Mods can actually see IP Addresses. There's no escape! ;D (By the way, the bribe's to ensure that I'm not arrested for carrying an offensive weapon. ) Edit: 89! oh darn... *packs suitcases to move to some remote country where she can't be tracked* ;D
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Post by valderra on Jan 28, 2007 6:15:20 GMT -5
but if you add the fact that I don't like the sound of the pure 100% British accent... it's a good excuse (don't kill me, I just don't) Apart from learning English in school, my first contact with English was when I went to California at the age of 18. I went again 2 years later, and made friends with a couple of girls who I wrote to. Because I had visited the US, but never been to Britain, I loved the American accent, and always thought the English accent to be too stiff. However, over the years, and with the arrival of my first husband who was English, I began to prefer the English accent. Nowadays it depends on the part of Britain the accent is from whether or not I prefer or even dislike it. So I know what you are talking about, Kmylove. Anyway... regarding the way words are written... I know that the Germans have a strong favour towards American slang and way of writing. I once worked for a pharmacy company, where I had to translate documents from German to English, and was told that they preferred me to write it in American English. I believe that if you are taught in school to write English English, you should do it, and I don't think that any school in Europe that teaches English, actually teaches American English. Even in German schools we learnt English English.
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Post by Kmylove on Jan 28, 2007 6:20:11 GMT -5
but if you add the fact that I don't like the sound of the pure 100% British accent... it's a good excuse (don't kill me, I just don't) Apart from learning English in school, my first contact with English was when I went to California at the age of 18. I went again 2 years later, and made friends with a couple of girls who I wrote to. Because I had visited the US, but never been to Britain, I loved the American accent, and always thought the English accent to be too stiff. However, over the years, and with the arrival of my first husband who was English, I began to prefer the English accent. Nowadays it depends on the part of Britain the accent is from whether or not I prefer or even dislike it. So I know what you are talking about, Kmylove. Anyway... regarding the way words are written... I know that the Germans have a strong favour towards American slang and way of writing. I once worked for a pharmacy company, where I had to translate documents from German to English, and was told that they preferred me to write it in American English. I believe that if you are taught in school to write English English, you should do it, and I don't think that any school in Europe that teaches English, actually teaches American English. Even in German schools we learnt English English. yes, we learned pure English in school. I guess my inclination towards American English comes from the fact that all my English teachers had a way of annoying me with the accent. First the private teacher I had kept nagging me to stop saying "can't" the way Americans do, and say it the British way, then my teacher in highschool kept trying to make me say words the way Englishmen do and I always refused it. I can't speak as fluently if I try to stick to the accent. As for the writing, I alternately write in AE and EE depending on how fast I type and who reads it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 28, 2007 6:29:10 GMT -5
Apart from learning English in school, my first contact with English was when I went to California at the age of 18. I went again 2 years later, and made friends with a couple of girls who I wrote to. Because I had visited the US, but never been to Britain, I loved the American accent, and always thought the English accent to be too stiff. However, over the years, and with the arrival of my first husband who was English, I began to prefer the English accent. Nowadays it depends on the part of Britain the accent is from whether or not I prefer or even dislike it. So I know what you are talking about, Kmylove. Anyway... regarding the way words are written... I know that the Germans have a strong favour towards American slang and way of writing. I once worked for a pharmacy company, where I had to translate documents from German to English, and was told that they preferred me to write it in American English. I believe that if you are taught in school to write English English, you should do it, and I don't think that any school in Europe that teaches English, actually teaches American English. Even in German schools we learnt English English. yes, we learned pure English in school. I guess my inclination towards American English comes from the fact that all my English teachers had a way of annoying me with the accent. First the private teacher I had kept nagging me to stop saying "can't" the way Americans do, and say it the British way, then my teacher in highschool kept trying to make me say words the way Englishmen do and I always refused it. I can't speak as fluently if I try to stick to the accent. As for the writing, I alternately write in AE and EE depending on how fast I type and who reads it. Over here, I have an English teacher who dislikes American English to death! The only times she's willing to make exceptions is when we're dealing with American Publications, e.g. To Kill A Mockingbird. So, if you're caught spelling colour without a "u", she makes you do it again. My dad's a bit like that too in some ways, only this time he fetches the thumbscrews (Ok, so I was joking about the thumbscrews part! ). Of course, using British English just comes natural to me as a result of influence from parents and teachers alike over the years. Anyway, BE could be considered the correct version rather than AE, especially seeing as us Brits (the English ones) came up with the language in the first place. We built it, the Americans vandalised it or so to speak.
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Post by valderra on Jan 28, 2007 6:39:15 GMT -5
Anyway, BE could be considered the correct version rather than AE, especially seeing as us Brits (the English ones) came up with the language in the first place. We built it, the Americans vandalised it or so to speak. And did you know that the word 'fall' is an English word that was taken over by the Americans? I wonder why the English discarded this word in favour of 'autumn'.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 28, 2007 7:20:53 GMT -5
Anyway, BE could be considered the correct version rather than AE, especially seeing as us Brits (the English ones) came up with the language in the first place. We built it, the Americans vandalised it or so to speak. And did you know that the word 'fall' is an English word that was taken over by the Americans? I wonder why the English discarded this word in favour of 'autumn'. Yes, and why it fell out of use over in the UK puzzles me too. Anyway, I think that Autumn has a better ring to it. Autumn vs Fall at WikipediaEdit: Nearly forgot. The British English spelling of "jail" was "gaol", but over time "jail" was adopted, one of the few spelling changes made by Noah Webster (aka "The Great Criminal", in my opinion) that made it over to this side of the Atlantic.
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Post by valderra on Jan 28, 2007 19:48:12 GMT -5
Thanks for that link, Doc. It's always interesting to me to see how words came to be.
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