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It looks like we shall at last be able to use correct English without Windows spell checker trying to corrupt it to American spellings.
Maybe we'll even be able to have our "favourite colours" again chaps and use "s" instead of "z" in words. [-o< =D>
Absolutely spiffing, chaps.
It looks like we shall at last be able to use correct English without Windows spell checker trying to corrupt it to American spellings.
Maybe we'll even be able to have our "favourite colours" again chaps and use "s" instead of "z" in words. [-o< =D>
Absolutely spiffing, chaps.
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Sebra....Zebra ?????
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Just remember... if it wasn't for the Americans, or Yanks as you called us, you wouldn't be worried about "proper English"... you'd be speaking GERMAN
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Sorry to disillusion you Bubba, but the defeat of Germany in Europe had a great deal more to do with the Russian involvement in World War 2 than American.
By the time that America joined in during 1941 the fight for the dominance of the air over Britain was already over - the famous Battle of Britain.
From the end of that (31 October 1940) Germany no longer had any serious chance or intention of invading the UK as its troops would have been slaughtered in the Channel before they could even land..
By the time that America joined in during 1941 the fight for the dominance of the air over Britain was already over - the famous Battle of Britain.
From the end of that (31 October 1940) Germany no longer had any serious chance or intention of invading the UK as its troops would have been slaughtered in the Channel before they could even land..
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It's not called "English" anymore. It's called "American". Perhaps the memo hasn't reached that tiny clump of islands yet?
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and the Americans have not yet won a war without the English
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How did the English help the United States in their victories over the Spanish, the Mexicans, the Apaches et al? I suppose you could argue that Britain helped the Yankees in their victory over the Confederacy by not allying with the Rebels.
You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
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ricks wrote:and the Americans have not yet won a war without the English
I know the English were around when the Americans won the war of 1775-1783.
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Quote from the article:arjay wrote:http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... indows.ars
It looks like we shall at last be able to use correct English without Windows spell checker trying to corrupt it to American spellings.
Maybe we'll even be able to have our "favourite colours" again chaps and use "s" instead of "z" in words. [-o< =D>
Absolutely spiffing, chaps.
"Thankfully this will soon be no longer, as Windows 8 will treat British English as a first-class citizen."
Well I think it's just brilliant that after nearly 30 years the good Americans at the worlds leading American run software company have now elevated the minority of quaint British-English speakers to "first class citizen" status.
British computer:
Absolutely spiffing, chaps.
UFF DA!
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...ensuring they do not miss tea time.ricks wrote:and the Americans have not yet won a war without the English
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BobHelm wrote:Sorry to disillusion you Bubba, but the defeat of Germany in Europe had a great deal more to do with the Russian involvement in World War 2 than American.
By the time that America joined in during 1941 the fight for the dominance of the air over Britain was already over - the famous Battle of Britain.
From the end of that (31 October 1940) Germany no longer had any serious chance or intention of invading the UK as its troops would have been slaughtered in the Channel before they could even land..
Actually quite true, had Hitler not revoked his non-agression treaty with Stalin the war might have ended differently. Same as the case as if Japan had not bombed Pearl Harbor. The Russians lost 20+ MILLION in WWII. I've spent considerable time in Ukraine, a former Soviet State, if you ask anyone there who won the war it certainly wont be America. My comment was ended with a wink. A joke. A light hearted poke at a comment from a Brit. As usual it is showed they have no sense of humor, but it's nice to see the reactions!
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Laan Yaa Mo wrote:How did the English help the United States in their victories over the Spanish, the Mexicans, the Apaches et al? I suppose you could argue that Britain helped the Yankees in their victory over the Confederacy by not allying with the Rebels.
France backed the Confederacy.
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BigBubba wrote:My comment was ended with a wink. A joke. A light hearted poke at a comment from a Brit. As usual it is showed they have no sense of humor, but it's nice to see the reactions!
Yes I don't especially have any sense of humour about the events of the Second World War. I am sorry that I fail to find any humour in the death of 10s of millions of human beings & people perpetrating mis-truths about the events that happened.
That does not mean that I have no sense of humour....just a sense of decency...
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Another "bash America" thread with the usual suspects involved.
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The Apaches!Laan Yaa Mo wrote:How did the English help the United States in their victories over the Spanish, the Mexicans, the Apaches et al? I suppose you could argue that Britain helped the Yankees in their victory over the Confederacy by not allying with the Rebels.
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast, hit 'em with the one they don't expect, and just keep hitting.
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BigBubba wrote:Just remember... if it wasn't for the Americans, or Yanks as you called us, you wouldn't be worried about "proper English"... you'd be speaking GERMAN
Do not be too understanding or forgiving of the anti-American Brits in this forum -- and it's certainly not all from the UK. They ascribe to the philosophy that anything UK is good. Anything America is bad. Anything you think is irreverent and indecent and incorrect. Anything they think is reverent and decent and correct. There are quite a few. Expect it. Those who ascribe to that philosophy are quite consistent.
I think it has something to do with the fact that we wrestled their colonies away from them and then, rabble that they accused of us being, we surpassed them in economic prosperity.
I dare say that if there were as many aspersions cast toward the UK culture as there are toward Americans and our culture in this forum, there'd be outrage and calls from the membership to ban each and every one who made any such remark.
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...but were "officially" neutral. France wanted cotton and to do things in Central America. The Confederates wanted ships and help to break the Union's naval blockade. France backed out, the Union won, and there are (IMHO) some Southerners still sore about that.BigBubba wrote:France backed the Confederacy.
@Ricohoc - Oh for goodness sake...taking shots at each other has been a long-standing and good-natured bit of fun between our two countries. There you go having a conniption about fun in true troll form. Do you EVER take a day off to rejoin us humans?
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KD I think for the most part you are correct, that it's all in fun. Although in some cases some of these Brits really do believe that they're superior, whereas we Yanks KNOW that we're superior. Just look at the way these guys "insult" each other over their soccer teams. A possible exception is when they comment on American politics, about which they are clueless.
I was once in the airplane industry in the US and we had a lot of Brit expats working with us. Spent many hours over beers ribbing each other. Topics usually were: football vs. soccer; spelling; driving on the "wrong" side of the road; fish and chips vs. hamburgers, the list goes on and on. Nobody took it seriously and it was great fun, once you got used to the British dry humor. It was especially laughable when the English and Scots got after each other.
I was once in the airplane industry in the US and we had a lot of Brit expats working with us. Spent many hours over beers ribbing each other. Topics usually were: football vs. soccer; spelling; driving on the "wrong" side of the road; fish and chips vs. hamburgers, the list goes on and on. Nobody took it seriously and it was great fun, once you got used to the British dry humor. It was especially laughable when the English and Scots got after each other.
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I would agree with that.jimboLV wrote:Topics usually were: football vs. soccer; spelling; driving on the "wrong" side of the road; fish and chips vs. hamburgers, the list goes on and on.
If those were the topics where "ribbing" is taking place, and it was done in the spirit of good-natured "ribbing," I would have never brought it up. I have a group of friends who hail from the UK, and we regularly enjoy similar "ribbing" in the true sense of the word. We are friends.
My reference was not to those light-hearted topics. Those who are on an incessant anti-American bent know who they are.
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Handy for me........do they have also a module that pronounce the words??arjay wrote:....It looks like we shall at last be able to use correct English without Windows spell checker trying to corrupt it to American spellings.
Perhaps handy also for some Udon UK expats...... :-" :-"