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Yes I am dammit! I decide what's cringe worthy and what's not, and those are just trendy words. They are not gonna be permanently fused into either dialect.
Or "thru" for "through"?
It'd be so funny if you two walked across each other almost everyday and never realized it lol
Well, in the case of "honor," claiming that "honour" is a much better spelling than "honor" is truly foolish, since the original Latin word is "honor," without a U. It's a stylistic preference, really. If a Briton wants to claim that Americans are stupid for spelling it without the U, they simply don't know what they're talking about. Because, first, it's a non-Germanic word, so its introduction to English is relatively recent. Moreover, both phonetics *and* the deeper word etymology favo(u)r omitting the U, since that is not there in Latin.
I don't really care much about the spellings of French/Latin words such as honour and whatnot. The only thing that bothers me about American English spellings is the changing of the spelling of Germanic words such as "boro" for "borough."
So you're all for getting rid of complicated spellings originating from French but convoluted spellings of Germanic origins are okay? I see where you're coming from, but strange spellings don't make English any less Germanic a language.
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Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed
It'd be so funny if you two walked across each other almost everyday and never realized it lol
Could well happen. Apparently I most likely ran into a weather forum regular without realizing it a couple months ago.
Yes I am dammit! I decide what's cringe worthy and what's not, and those are just trendy words. They are not gonna be permanently fused into either dialect.
Or "thru" for "through"?
It'd be so funny if you two walked across each other almost everyday and never realized it lol
Lol it could happen, to be honest I'm living off campus this year though in my own house with two other guys, so I won't be on campus as much.. Unless Owen plans on partying in the student union then I doubt I'd see him much!
I don't think I could run into any other C-D member here....the closest one is AJ but I'm rarely by the Key Biscayne area. Whenever I'm in Miami I go to Downtown or Miami Beach. I go to Coral Gables sometimes to deliver things for work.
I to Kendall/South Dade more often than I do to the Key Biscayne area.
There's certain people on here I'd rather not run into and there's a few people I wouldn't mind meeting and having some drinks with.
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