Canadian spelling....
Oct 29th 2009 | 2:26 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
Apparently, in the uk 'book' is now slang for 'cool' cos it's what appears first when you type it in.
Oct 29th 2009 | 2:30 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
Oct 29th 2009 | 2:52 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
Just watching the news and there was an item about Canadian spelling.
The issue is that words like colour, neighbour, favourite etc are being changed in some text books to the American way - color, neighbor, favorite.
Now from a personal point of view it doesn't bother me either way - each to his own and all that. The issue arises when they then interview the Alberta education minster and ask him "does he think that keeping Canadian spelling is important"
His reply?
"Why, it doesn't bother me either way"
What the hell sort of example is that to set?????? Whether you decide to spell it one way or another - of course it should f****g well bother you that there is some unity across the province and country ffs.
I don't know why this angered me so much but if you can't agree on the basics of education what else can't you make your mind up on
The issue is that words like colour, neighbour, favourite etc are being changed in some text books to the American way - color, neighbor, favorite.
Now from a personal point of view it doesn't bother me either way - each to his own and all that. The issue arises when they then interview the Alberta education minster and ask him "does he think that keeping Canadian spelling is important"
His reply?
"Why, it doesn't bother me either way"
What the hell sort of example is that to set?????? Whether you decide to spell it one way or another - of course it should f****g well bother you that there is some unity across the province and country ffs.
I don't know why this angered me so much but if you can't agree on the basics of education what else can't you make your mind up on
Seriously, who gives a shit is my opinion also. What's next? How many fingers are supposed to be used when grasping a tea cup?
Oct 29th 2009 | 2:54 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
Surely this will be an hot topic during the next federal election. I can see the far left types claiming discrimination against the letter U.
Seriously, who gives a shit is my opinion also. What's next? How many fingers are supposed to be used when grasping a tea cup?
Seriously, who gives a shit is my opinion also. What's next? How many fingers are supposed to be used when grasping a tea cup?
Oct 29th 2009 | 3:03 pm
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Guilty M'lud. I don't even know why, but it irritates the crap out of me when I see the English language misused and abused. I hate it when people use "u" instead of writing "you". Maybe I'm just an old fart or something.
Oct 29th 2009 | 3:21 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
" excuse me mate, where can I charge my mobile before I fly to Canada? Oh, and do you know anything about winter tires?
Oct 29th 2009 | 3:27 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
Oct 29th 2009 | 3:46 pm
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Didn't Noah Webster introduce American spelling as a way to standardis/ze English and in the process create a purer form of the language by getting rid of the Norman/French influence? I think it is all that City on the Hill bollox that the Americans were/are intoxicated by. Isn't the American attempt to control and create an orthodoxy in the language the reason Americans have 'spelling bees'? Basically trying to prove what a good American you are. I suspect those Canadians living near the mid-west border states just adopted this by osmosis without thinking about the political and philosophical reasons.
Oct 29th 2009 | 4:20 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
I must admit I can't get too bothered about colour/color. It used to bother me years ago when I first worked with Americans in Europe but now I don't care too much one way or the other.
It's not the spelling that drives me nuts so much as the mangling of language. For example there's a TV & radio advert running at the moment for a particular pickup truck... "the most awarded truck in Canada." Jeez, that grates.
It's not the spelling that drives me nuts so much as the mangling of language. For example there's a TV & radio advert running at the moment for a particular pickup truck... "the most awarded truck in Canada." Jeez, that grates.
Oct 29th 2009 | 4:27 pm
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Re: Canadian spelling....
Seems the telly's pretty crap tonight no matter where we live....
