I'm not usually a nit-picker but this is bugging the hell out of me.
POSTED BY: ebonezer
UPDATED: Monday, April 18, 2005 23:22
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Every sense i joined this site however long agao i joined it, i've been looking at a quote that says something like "I poured my heart and soul into this show. I beleved in it with every fibre of my being."
fibre? What the hell is a fibre?
i know whoever put it there ment fiber and it just kind of slipped through the cracks but still, PLEASE fix it. It makes the site look bad. It was the first thing i saw when i first came to the site and it made it look a little dumb.
Sorry if this thread is in the totaly wrong place, i just had to tell someone.
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That's how the Brits spell it and Joss is quite the Anglophile. So...spelled right just not how Americans normally see it.
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so it is spelled right? I'm so confused...
sorry i'm an illetrate dolt people.
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Nope, not illerate. Just that in the UK there are many words that are spelled quite differently than they are in the US. And there are some that are pronounced much differently even if they're spelled the same. And yet others that are spelled and pronounced the same even though they mean completely different things.
Personally I think we should just bite the bullet and call what we speak (here in the US) American instead of English because we're just about at the point where a linguist would consider them seperate dialects like Swedish and Norwegan for example.
So yeah it is spelled correctly in the English that the Brits use. Since Joss studied there he uses a few British spellings and I'm assuming that's how he wrote it, fibre.
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ahhhh..thanks for clearing that up.
Yeah thenm brittish folks say some differnt things then us. A freind of a freind (who was brittish) said "Put wood in hole" instead of "close the door."
thanks gunhand!
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Americans and British spell things differently because after the American Revolution we Americans changed the spelling on many words do separate our selves from England (We also started drinking coffee to stick it to the British Tea makers). For example Harbor is spelled Harbour (I think) in England.
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Sure thing.
Hehe, yeah they have even more confusing sayings aside from just the words.
One time in a bar I had a Royal Marine ask me to,"S
the salt." Believe me that took me a whole long while to wrap my brain around.
It meant "pass" but it was very odd to me.
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Originally posted by GunRunner:
Americans and British spell things differently because after the American Revolution we Americans changed the spelling on many words do separate our selves from England (We also started drinking coffee to stick it to the British Tea makers). For example Harbor is spelled Harbour (I think) in England.
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Indeed! (I need a little pic of David Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China to stick in here everytime I say that)
Some of it was intentional, the rest of it is your general linguistic drift over the centuries.
There are some places in the US where people use completely different idioms and whatnot so it isn't all that surprising that having an ocean between us made the language different. A cliched statement is,"America and Britain are two countries seperated by a common language."
But the brilliant British commedian said it even better,"America and Britain are two countries seperated by a very large ocean."
I got even with the salt passers though, they could barely understand my accent to begin with so I guess we're even. Hehe.
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Actually, Swedish & Norwegian are 2 different languages--they don't even use the same set of letters. They're not mutually intelligible. And there are hundreds of dialects within the US...
But, yeah, I don't speak English or Spanish. I speak American and Mexican.
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Originally posted by Gunhand:
Sure thing.
Hehe, yeah they have even more confusing sayings aside from just the words.
One time in a bar I had a Royal Marine ask me to,"S
It meant "pass" but it was very odd to me.
I once knew a guy who, during his time in England, had a girl ask him to "come round in the morning and knock me up." Always good to know about these little cross-cultural things before flying 'cross the pond.
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