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Farmageddon on 30 November 2010
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Pyro as Bill said:
Farmageddon said:

If you google program you get 750.000.000 matches. Programme lands only 179,000,000.

So American English is much more popular. There's no denying my logic :P


We use program too. We don't use it for programmes but we do use it for programs.

Does that clear things up?


It was a joke. I thought the "There's no denying my logic :P" would clear that, but I guess these things can be hard to notice over the internet.

Kantor said:
Perpalicious said:

Sarcasm is an unfortunate tactic. Care to elaborate your point, though? You know, in a more intelligent manner and actually state your issues with my post? Using sarcasm to simply make a jab at me doesn't really dismiss what I'm saying. That long word is inefficient and pointless. I'll point something out, though. Why are you using contractions? Why not type out "I will" or "It is" or "is it not"? You're doing it for the sake of efficiency. Furthermore, it's the same way you use grammar: you make it a more efficient to be read. Everything is based around efficiency.

More than anything else, I wanted to use the word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" in a post. It's been several months since I've done that.

English is, indeed, English. Which is to say, it's not American. Therefore, America shouldn't really be going around and changing the language, taking out letters which really aren't all that confusing, and indeed are integral to the meaning of the word, just to make the pronunciation literal - doughnut, for example. A doughnut is made of dough. A donut is not made of do. Similarly, aluminium is a metal, and ends with the same suffix as quite a few other metals, and aluminum... really? A third example: ethanoic acid. "eth" refers to the presence of two Carbon atoms, and to the fact that it's oxidised Ethanol. So what the hell is Acetic Acid? Oxidised Acete?

Actually, there's nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is when they enforce it on everyone and set it as some stupid unchangeable default on Microsoft Word. When it is taught in schools worldwide (as seems to be clear from this thread), in place of the actual original language.

If I took the French language and took out all of the accents and called it "British French", the French would be annoyed, wouldn't they? It destroys the feel of the language.

Also, does "colour" really take that much longer to type than "color"? Did you really have to remove one-sixth of the letters to save you...what, half a second, if that?

You take a sixth of the keystrokes away by going from colour to color, but only a seventh from are not to aren't. I do realise it's not exactly the same situation but still. I'm not even talking about english now, any language is an expression of it's people. No language is ever done or finished while it lives and there's nothing wrong with it changing over time. The difference from old english to british english is, as was pointed out, much more relevant then the one between american and british english. Also, this whole "oh no, they took my language and raped it" mentality is, frankly, kind of retarded and pretty close minded.