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Brisi
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Posted - 2006.06.17 08:04:00 -
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This discussion is absolutely meaningless, it's discussing something that ain't worth discussing, just for the sake of it.
Christ...so you (the OP) wants to less 'Z's and more 'OU's in stead of plain 'O's in the spelling of certain words, why the hell would you care so much?
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Jowen Datloran
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Posted - 2006.06.17 08:46:00 -
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As long we only have to type and not SPEAK american english it's all cool.
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Joshua Foiritain
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Posted - 2006.06.17 09:54:00 -
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Im confused, whats the point of this topic? 
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Stephar
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Posted - 2006.06.17 10:07:00 -
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Is there really that much difference between American and British English? At least they didn't choose Icelandic.
Check out the pie graph on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
"Distribution of Native English speakers by country"
1) USA - 67.2%
2) UK - 16.9%
3) Canada - 5.8%
4) Other - 5.5%
5) Australia - 4.5%
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Ortu Konsinni
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Posted - 2006.06.17 10:13:00 -
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I thought I'd seen a lot of useless whining on these forums but this topic surpasses everything I could've imagined.
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Kel Shek
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Posted - 2006.06.17 10:15:00 -
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 Originally by: Joshua Foiritain
Im confused, whats the point of this topic?
as far as I can figure, it boils down to whining that a European company decided to spell Armor without a U in their game.
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Raem Civrie
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:05:00 -
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I doubt it was a conscious decision, and more like... "what form of english do I use everyday" from the devs writing to begin with.
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Tobias Sjodin
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:17:00 -
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Geez,
is this a downtime post or what?
Must be, it's totally useless. :P
(I'll leave you to figure out whether I mean my own, or the OP)
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Ishquar Teh'Sainte
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:28:00 -
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at least i can say - i don't know the actual difference between English, British English and American English ...
i use the words i know - dunno which dialect they actual are 
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Tar Ecthelion
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:30:00 -
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I agree, its damn irritating searching on market for an "armour" repairer and bloody thing saying no items found. 
Anyhow, its downtime, the suns shining, and time for a beer `till the footie starts 
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Virida
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:33:00 -
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Well, english "dialect" differences is so small, a texan and a*****ney from london practically ISNT different, english speakers is simply so used to microscopic differences they is not prepared for anything.
Norwegian had enormous differences in dialects since even viking age, and has devloped with those dialects, in paralell, with islandic language as a example of a "offshot" of a funny vest norwegian one. Result is, the sweedish language and danish, is closer to main norwegian, than the dialect i speak(and i write the mainstream norwegian, when its 98% danish, and even sweedish is closer to my true language).
Icelandic, on other hand, derive from the "wrong" norwegian viking dialects, so, it sound for me as guttural garbled norse, spoken with a potato stuck in troath. But, if you are to undestand how the norwegian dialects is related, you almost need to learn icelandic, sadly, since its almost the only thing linking it(or to be more accurately, norse).
and you guys quarrel about a 100-150 year old dialectic difference? pph, lol.
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Gumdrop
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:34:00 -
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star trek is in english therefor all space games MUST be in english too its a rule
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Rover Vitesse
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:38:00 -
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I speak Oursulaertan English, notoriously hard to understand me much past 2100 EVT after I have been on the Alentenian Liquers.
On a serious matter, who cares? The important thing about any form of communication is to express your meaning to your audience in a clear and concise manner. If the person you are talking to understands what you are trying to tell them, all is good.
On another interesting note, has anyone noticed regional dialects forming in Eve? The way you damn northerners use a . instead of an X for gang really gets my goat...
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Wheya
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:40:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
I have no problem understanding British English, nor do I have any problem with it--its just that for the vast majority of the world who knows English as a second language, they learned International English, not British English, and thus it would not be fair to force them to learn an additional dialect simply to be able to use a standardized international language. At least in my experience.
As far as I remember my teachers in school in germany tried to teach me 'Oxford English'. I don't care as long as football is called football but not soccer.
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Max Godsnottlingson
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:54:00 -
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Edited by: Max Godsnottlingson on 17/06/2006 11:55:02
As a Brit who is constantly trying to get our colonial cousins to spell right (armour, not armor) Not that I am the best speller in the world, I can be pretty defencive of British English.
But seriously. At the end of the day does it matter? The only thing that matters is that you can convay your thoughts and ideas and understand the thoughts and ideas of others no matter how they spell Armour
Think yourself lucky that communication Eve is 99% written because it would be hillarious listening to a Geordie or Scoucer trying to get somebody from the deep south of the US to understand them. Hell even I have difficulty understanding Geordies and Scoucers when they ar ein full flight and I live less then a 100 miles from both
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Ishquar Teh'Sainte
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Posted - 2006.06.17 11:58:00 -
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Originally by: Rover Vitesse
The way you damn northerners use a . instead of an X for gang really gets my goat...
 .. you DON'T use a . for gang ...
AAAAHHH .... run for t3h hillz!!!1! the babarians are coming!!!1
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Karunel
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Posted - 2006.06.17 12:20:00 -
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Quote:
I thought I'd seen a lot of useless whining on these forums but this topic surpasses everything I could've imagined.
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Posted - 2006.06.17 13:09:00 -
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Originally by: Brisi
This discussion is absolutely meaningless, it's discussing something that ain't worth discussing, just for the sake of it.
yup, worthless thread
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Tzun Su
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Posted - 2006.06.17 13:19:00 -
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It all boils down to to Hollywood we all watch american Films and TV programmes therefore we all understand '"Americanese'' Personally im English but i still understand most types and infact I find it harder to understand people from teh north of england as they use alot of different words for things.
So its just esier to use American English.
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Zaldiri
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Posted - 2006.06.17 13:20:00 -
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Apart from some more simple spellings (which, despite me being from the UK, I'm all for), and the odd rather stupid term (none of which realy have an impact in eve), is there any major difference between american english and proper english?
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.06.17 13:27:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 17/06/2006 13:28:41
Originally by: Zaldiri
Apart from some more simple spellings (which, despite me being from the UK, I'm all for), and the odd rather stupid term (none of which realy have an impact in eve), is there any major difference between american english and proper english?
/recalls what he learned in English a while back.
American culture and history has added a lot of idioms to American English. Most of them have probably spread around to the point where everyone knows them, but some have stayed unique to America. Some examples:
Outlandish: This actually came directly from the word "outlands." People from the outlands were... outlandish.
Poker introduced many words to the American slang: "you bet," "big deal," "raw deal," "stack the deck", "square deal," "pass the buck," "poker face," "call his bluff," "ante up," "blue chip," "cashing in," "string along," "throw in one's hand," "deal me out."
Furtrapping did also: "eager beaver" or "work like a beaver."
The gold rush: "Goldmine," "pay dirt," "to pan out," "strike it rich."
Cowboys: "stampede," "kick the bucket," "bite the dust," "handyman."
Native Americans, through pidgin English, introduced new phrases: "long time, no see" and "no can do."
Railroads of course did: "letting off steam," "in the clear," "backtracking," "sidetracked," "one track mind," "streamlining," "mainlining," "gravy train," "end of the line."
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Sir Juri
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Posted - 2006.06.17 13:32:00 -
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pointless thread. It is american english. Its like people from Mexico would argue that their spanish is more spanish then the spanish they speak in Chile. Or spain saying mexicans dont speak spanish. Same with all german speaking countries and so on. 
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Reiisha
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Posted - 2006.06.17 15:39:00 -
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Originally by: Eternal Fury
Lets look at it. Most of europe is a hodgepodge of languages. There are probobly about a dozen languages spoken within a 5,000 km range. How many of those people know each others languages.
About 150-200 in an area 50x50km.
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H3licon
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Posted - 2006.06.17 18:46:00 -
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Edited by: H3licon on 17/06/2006 18:49:38
Originally by: Eternal Fury
Lets look at it. Most of europe is a hodgepodge of languages. There are probobly about a dozen languages spoken within a 5,000 km range. How many of those people know each others languages.
Spelling "propobly" and making questions without an ending "?" makes YOUR language to be neither English, nor any known English dialect. So, shut up.
Also, most americans, brits and even australians i see ingame DO NOT know the different between "to" and "too", between "your" and "you're".
So, with those illiteracy values in mind, who cares about this thread? You can easily see a person from Botswana with greater spelling skills than the natives from the "Original English lands".
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Saeris Tal'Urduar
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Posted - 2006.06.17 18:58:00 -
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Originally by: Tar Ecthelion
I agree, its damn irritating searching on market for an "armour" repairer and bloody thing saying no items found.
Anyhow, its downtime, the suns shining, and time for a beer `till the footie starts
Now I'm an american and I spell armour...well armour.
But then again I'm a very bad speller so I thought I was spelling it the american way and not the proper english way...go figure.
Makes me feel better to know I wasnt misspelling it the whole time, even though I was.
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Pyrok
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Posted - 2006.06.17 19:59:00 -
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"proper" english has been dead for about 400 years, and unless you can read this
"Sy==an wµs geworden ¦µt he ferde ¦urh ¦a ceastre and ¦µt castel: godes rice prediciende and bodiende. and hi twelfe mid. And sume wif ¦e wµron gehµlede of awyrgdum gastum: and untrumnessum: seo magdalenisce maria of¦µre seofan deoflu uteodon: and iohanna chuzan wif herodes gerefan: and susanna and manega o=re ¦e him of hyra spedum ¦enedon;"
you aren't speaking "proper" english.
As for the question, probably because Americanized English is the most widely spoken language among the EVE demographic.
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Sovy Kurosei
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Posted - 2006.06.17 20:05:00 -
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Quote:
I thought I'd seen a lot of useless whining on these forums but this topic surpasses everything I could've imagined.
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Hatsimoto
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Posted - 2006.06.17 21:50:00 -
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The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a
pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,but the
wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2006.06.17 22:28:00 -
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CCP are smart enough to recognize that british english is offputting to everyone not british?
Remind me about The Maze.
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Hohenheim OfLight
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Posted - 2006.06.17 22:35:00 -
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Originally by: Max Godsnottlingson
Edited by: Max Godsnottlingson on 17/06/2006 11:55:02
As a Brit who is constantly trying to get our colonial cousins to spell right (armour, not armor) Not that I am the best speller in the world, I can be pretty defencive of British English.
But seriously. At the end of the day does it matter? The only thing that matters is that you can convay your thoughts and ideas and understand the thoughts and ideas of others no matter how they spell Armour
Think yourself lucky that communication Eve is 99% written because it would be hillarious listening to a Geordie or Scoucer trying to get somebody from the deep south of the US to understand them. Hell even I have difficulty understanding Geordies and Scoucers when they ar ein full flight and I live less then a 100 miles from both
Beeing a Scoucer my self this is an issure, especial with the eu peeps, Most of my corp find it very hard to undesrtand what i am saying, but then again i have other male members of my corp wanting to marry me for my accent, (quite worrieing really) as for all this english crap this is only one enlgish and its english american is american it happens to sound and look like english.
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