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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:21 pm

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:01 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:56 pm Veg,

Yeah, language/grammar gets codified, but the foundation of language/grammar is still largely a matter of (as I say) 'reasonableness', not 'rules'.

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Phil,

Why you wanna feed trolls?

Not really. Trolls can easily avoid my threads or, even better, not troll. So the question is what do the trolls gain from getting fed? I'm helping the readers identify those who are trolls as a public service.

PhilX

I do avoid them for the most part (and so does everyone else), unless it's about something that interests me and that I can contribute constructively to. The trouble is that 90+ percent of your threads are on topics that you know absolutely nothing about, then you get nasty when you are shown up as the complete ignoramus that you are.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:01 am

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 1:33 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:09 pm

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:06 am

You haven't read the article about aluminium and the British. It was Americans who called the metal aluminum
and some fool British who decided to add the i to harmonize it with potassium so you got your history backwards. And if I do enough research with the British, I'm sure I'll find plenty of other illogical examples.

PhilX

Well said VEG. Unfortunately this US fella - phil - always appears to struggle with logic as he yet again fumbles his way through another one of his thread spams. Both of us have made it clear how there is nothing 'more logical' about US screwing around with the spelling within the English language, where does it stop? culla for colour? was my example. or maybe phil would have preferred 'kulla'...maybe that would have been 'more logical'.

And phil - stop calling non US people 'fools' it only serves to render yourself even dumber when you have failed yet again in one of your own threads.

An entire country that daily pour (for phil:- 'por') liquid petroleum into their cars and call it 'gas' ..duh!

Apparently you're as prejudiced as VT. I gave several examples where the British added letters to words, in at least one instance for reason of harmony. The US isn't playing around with the British language, rather they adjusted within the American language to make improvements. But it was the British that the article clearly showed who screwed around with the word aluminum to make it aluminium for British taste.

I'll call anyone a fool when the word applies. And duh, it is gas or gasoline in my country. If you want to call it petrol or petroleum in your country (note the extra letters here) just strengthens my case. So thanks for your nonbrilliant example.

PhilX

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 5:20 am

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 1:33 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:09 pm

Well said VEG. Unfortunately this US fella - phil - always appears to struggle with logic as he yet again fumbles his way through another one of his thread spams. Both of us have made it clear how there is nothing 'more logical' about US screwing around with the spelling within the English language, where does it stop? culla for colour? was my example. or maybe phil would have preferred 'kulla'...maybe that would have been 'more logical'.

And phil - stop calling non US people 'fools' it only serves to render yourself even dumber when you have failed yet again in one of your own threads.

An entire country that daily pour (for phil:- 'por') liquid petroleum into their cars and call it 'gas' ..duh!

Apparently you're as prejudiced as VT. I gave several examples where the British added letters to words, in at least one instance for reason of harmony. The US isn't playing around with the British language, rather they adjusted within the American language to make improvements. But it was the British that the article clearly showed who screwed around with the word aluminum to make it aluminium for British taste.

I'll call anyone a fool when the word applies. And duh, it is gas or gasoline in my country. If you want to call it petrol or petroleum in your country (note the extra letters here) just strengthens my case. So thanks for your nonbrilliant example.

PhilX

They didn't 'add letters' oh mother of all twits. Seriously, 'donut' must look like baby-language even to a baby like you.

Science Fan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:46 pm Just amazing seeing people who think that there is some centralized board of decision-makers who determine what language is used in the USA. The USA has a First Amendment, which would make any such board unconstitutional. In the USA, language is determined by the people who use it, and the language used is constantly changing, and there are also numerous local variations. I'm sure this is largely true for most other western nations as well.

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:38 am Another example:

British English: aeroplane

American English: airplane

Two less letters, one less syllable.

PhilX

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:16 am I hated Hemingway anyway. Always killing something or other. Trying to prove how 'manly' he was, due to the fact that he had a famously minute penis.