It's called American "English" for a reason!

[Jed]

'scuse this rant.

So British English is meant to be the "default" version we speak in Britain and Europe. That means its "colour" not "color" and "centre" not "center". Therefore I get really pissy when someone takes it upon themselves to Americanise the spelling of the HaJ Valve wiki page.

Apart from not being "wrong" doesn't British English pull rank based on age? :D

We're a mod predominately about European units fighting in a European theatre with a mostly European team targetting primarily a European player base and we can't use our own (correct) version of English? :@

Go and tell a sandy country how to speak ya buggers and leave us alone! :icon_twisted:

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Hahahaah too right Jed, learn to spell Americans! ;)

[Hugo.B]

We're a mod predominately about European units fighting in a European theatre with a mostly European team targetting primarily a European player base and we can't use our own (correct) version of English? :@
Quoted For Truth

[Asskicker]

I also prefer Britain English above American English.
I think it sounds better, and that's what I learn at school

[Ginger Lord]

I also prefer English above American English.


Fixed.

[Spartacus]

Swedish ftw!

Damn yanks and limey's :)

[Chris]

I didn't realize (realise) how much different we are in spelling.

Ok, you got us on English English is older and has the right to spell its words as it pleases. But, if I may add, we created the Atom bomb, Wal-Mart, McDonald's, sneakers and saved the world from Nazi rule through sheer mass production--thanks to Henry Ford. So that forfeits the age part, right?. :icon_twisted:

[Asskicker]

Ow like the Atom bomb is something good? McDoonald's is good? :/

[Hugo.B]

...and saved the world from Nazi rule...Kindly recollect that the British won the war!

[Jed]

Oh lord....

[Chris]

I still love you guys.

Jed
"Go and tell a sandy country how to speak ya buggers and leave us alone!"
Are you talking about Iraq?

However, I can see why you are getting pissed. We American's have a bad habit of being "ethnocentric" and thinking everything runs according to American ideals. I bet some of the members of this forum don't even know you guys are from the UK or other countries. I admit, we have a large group of idiots living in America, breeding and breeding and correcting the spelling of colour to color and so on. :[

Accordingly, I never said the Atom Bomb was a good thing. Anyone knows that anything we make isn't good for all of Planet Earth. Atom Bombs threaten all of the world; McDonald's makes people fat; Wal-Mart, ummm, wait that's a good thing because I can buy really cheap stuff; and sneakers make superior athletes with huge egos. :[

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I didn't realize (realise) how much different we are in spelling.

Ok, you got us on English English is older and has the right to spell its words as it pleases. But, if I may add, we created the Atom bomb [Mass death? awesome!], Wal-Mart [What's so great about Wal-Mart?], McDonald's [Worst food in the world?], sneakers [Sweat shop labour, great!]and saved the world from Nazi rule [Plain ignorant] through sheer mass production--thanks to Henry Ford. So that forfeits the age part, right?. :icon_twisted:

:) :) :)

[Chris]

Sorry to get off subject, but how was I being ignorant? If it wasn't for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Britian would have been in serious trouble from invasion. And everyone on this board knows that the only two countries it could rely on was Canada and the United States. Because you know those French folded like lawn chairs, and Russia was in the midst of trying to build up their military by stalling with a truce between their two countries.

However, maybe you didn't understand what I was saying. I meant that we out produced just about any country with our sheer volumes of equipment through mass producing techniques and infinite supply of natural resources. I didn't mean that we single handly won the war by ourselves, but with the help of other nations.

[fess]

Well, again Britain didn't rely just on America and Canada, far from it. Thousands of Australians, New Zealanders, Indians and other Commonwealth nations fought alongside the Allies.

I do agree that the US probably produced more materiel than other nations, but this didn't win the war alone.

[Jed]

Well, again Britain didn't rely just on America and Canada, far from it. Thousands of Australians, New Zealanders, Indians and other Commonwealth nations fought alongside the Allies.

You forgot Poland.

[Jed]

Sorry to get off subject, but how was I being ignorant? If it wasn't for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Britian would have been in serious trouble from invasion. And everyone on this board knows that the only two countries it could rely on was Canada and the United States. Because you know those French folded like lawn chairs, and Russia was in the midst of trying to build up their military by stalling with a truce between their two countries.

Actually, Britain wasn't under that much threat from Invasion as many think. For a start, a seaborne invasion would of been very difficult especially against the force of the Royal Navy. The Channel is bloody hard to navigate at the best of times and it would of been even more hazardous in flat bottomed troop barge. With the RN in almost total control of the channel they wouldn't of had to do much more than just power past them with a destroyed and they'd of flipped and gone to the bottom.

An airborne assault would of be suicide as the airborne troops wouldn't of been able to hold out for very long without re-enforcement from armoured and air-support. They might of been able to capture an airfield or two but the RAF would of bombed them into oblivion. Theres no way the Luftwaffe could of established any form of air-superiority over Britain anyway - their fighters were already stretched to loiter over England when operating from France.

Im not saying Germany couldn't of invaded the British mainland, but they would of been wiped out within a week.

Hitler's ideal strategy was to broker for peace with Britain for an end to hostilities in return for a free hand in Europe with Britian retaining it's Empire countries and Commonwealth. Whether Churchill would of accepted that is very unlikely.

[Ginger Lord]

Not to mention the ideal landing sites for an Invasion were all around the East coast, which is a long trip for France or they send everyone from Norfolk.

Scaling the White Cliffs of Dover wouldn't have been ideal...or landing in a port would have been suicide. Sure the Land-Lease may have helped out, but by the time it mattered (D-Day) we had been making planes out of spare bits of wood and railings and winning with them for a while.

We didn't need the materials for the Battle of Britain, had plenty of planes just no experienced pilots. Still not bad for winning when you're outnumbered 4-1 and having thousands of civilians killed and wounded a night eh?

I do love it when these topics come up. :icon_lmao:

[fess]

You forgot Poland.

I apologise, and to any other nations I didn't mention.

Also, don't forget the Home Guard, no-one would have gotten past those hardy WW1 veterans and old blokes :D

[Blue]

The American pronunciation of Lieutenant is more accurate than the British, as it is closer to the French pronunciation which is the language the word came from.

That's the only exception to the rule concerning shitty American English :P

[Spartacus]

We Saved Your Ass In Ww3!

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I've always wondered why we pronounce Lieutenant the way we do.

[Jed]

I've always wondered why we pronounce Lieutenant the way we do.

In contemporary English, the word is usually pronounced "left-tenant" in most dialects except American English, where it is pronounced "loot-tenant".

In 1791, English lexicographer John Walker lamented that the "regular sound" - "loot-tenant" - was not in general employ, giving the pronunciation current at the time as "leff-tenant". Walker's prescriptive pronunciation - which represents the regular English naturalisation of the modern French word - took hold in the United States over the course of the nineteenth century.

The great influence exercised on American English by Noah Webster, who insisted (but inconsistently) on the congruence of orthography and pronunciation, may be partly responsible for the eventual triumph of the "regular" pronunciation in the United States. In the rest of the English-speaking world, however, the Commonwealth form remains.

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