I believe there should be a hyphen in there somewhere, Kryo.

Other than that, umm, yeah, kinda

But we are having fun. At least I am.

Me too!   

Everyone just needs to "Super-sIZE" their vocabulary!

If you don't have a Universal Translator your words tend to get extra "U's" added to them. Just an observation.

Actually, size is spelled that way.

Different, in Canada we use spellings from the UK and States.

I'm a US-born grammar nanny, but I still sometimes enjoy flavour in my spellings.

And since this merry threadjacking is well underway, I have to scoff the UK/US squabble when there's a much more worthier point of mockery: apostrophe abuse.

Apostrophes don't mean "Hey, there's an S coming up." They indicate missing characters in a contraction or that a noun ending in S is possessive. (And, in some fonts, they also act as single-quote marks.)

This thread reeks of smug.

Yeah, I like that group from Texas... "Zed Zed Top".

thi's i's a long'standing favorite topic of GW's.

I'm a lapsed anarchist. No fair mucking well with a rule when I break down and try to defend it



I'd be OK signing on to this claim if I had any idea whether xNaquada found any reeking things attractive (cheeses like Stilton or fruits like durian?) or had some sympathy for smug mutherfrakkers.

lol

Got distracted by this line in the same picture as previously mentioned: "Physical labor is considered too lowly to be considered honorable by some races."

I do this myself a lot, especially when tired. But this line of text might benefit from a slight overhaul. Would personally revisit such text if applicable, and clean it up. You could for example write:

"Physical labor is considered too lowly, to be regarded as honorable by some races."



The problem lies in the repetition of the same word, if you catch my drift. You might say I am nitpicking here. And that's fine. Sorry to interrupt.

USA/UK - two countries separated by a common language - live with it

Its an american based game, american spelling will always be used.

Its not the end of life as we know it.

Zydor -

Its should be it's.

'It is', shortened to a single word is - it's.

Just another 'grammar nanny' coming to the rescue.

Its indicates a plural of something - as in, more than one of.
Incorrect usaage, in this case.

(and american should really be capitalized - American)

About the Mars mission.

I happen to agree, but I assumed that most players were American and Stardock is an America company, so ...

Since the original report has been fixed, I'm moving the thread to OTF so it can live out what life it has left

Thhhppptt all you want, Kryo. I'm rather curious to see if PlayJeff has a followthrough for this bit.

Is this thread headed to metaphorical Mars (i.e. nowhere), should we digress into discussion of writing problems in NASA reports, or start a rollicking wrangle over what passes for space policy in the "real" US gov't these days?

The UK added letters to words to get higher scores in scrabble. LMAO.

Ohhhhh The urge to comment on that one is chewing me up...

But on that note, I'm interested to hear if anyone has a plausible reason as to why the English language lost a number of letters when it sailed across the pond.

Tis a subject I've never really looked into when it has crossed my mind.


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Anyone got a reason better than Bad pronunciation gone wild?

Excessively heavy words tend to have their extra letters sink?

On a serious note, blame or thank Noah Webster. He was a spelling reformer and wrote the first widespread dictionary in use in the US.

Noah Webster

On another note...How did I become such a sink of useless knowledge?

In America the population was operating under the administrative language of English but the people weren't totally english but a mix of people who came there for trade, emigration, etc. Mainly the people were German, British and other people who spoke english. The language diversified and formed into a new yet very fimiliar dialect while the British version also kept gaining new ground as the British colonized one fourth of the world.

This may be wrong though. You can google it if you like.

As you don't seem to be able to decide whether it is honorable, or honourable, let's rather go for the Norwegian; Ære.

TIP

Whats this got to do with the price of rice in China you ask? Nothing really, just to show that this thread really got off topic of what the thread was about, I think.
Honorable or Honourable, both correct. Inches or Centimeters, again both correct.
I was never an understudy in grammar, commas, or spelling, so if there are any, please point them out