Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>David Greaves wrote:
>
>> If you look at it, even the letter Z (pronounced zed of course)  is arrogant.
>> All those angles and straight lines.
>
>"Pronounced zed" ?

Yep. The English way of saying the letter 'z' is 'zed'. Americans (and American
influenced countries) say 'zee'.

There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Most of them relate to Americans
'simplifying' words or sounds to make them either easier to pronounce, or
easier to say. Hence colour becomes color, Aluminium becomes Aluminum, and so
forth.

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povray.org admin team wrote:

> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>
> >David Greaves wrote:
> >
> >> If you look at it, even the letter Z (pronounced zed of course)  is arrogant.
> >> All those angles and straight lines.
> >
> >"Pronounced zed" ?
>
> Yep. The English way of saying the letter 'z' is 'zed'. Americans (and American
> influenced countries) say 'zee'.
>
> There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Most of them relate to Americans
> 'simplifying' words or sounds to make them either easier to pronounce, or
> easier to say. Hence colour becomes color, Aluminium becomes Aluminum, and so
> forth.

    I agree with what you say although the British are not
immune from doing the same thing. Take the common
expressions "telly" and "uni" for the correct pronounciation
of television and university.
    Either way it is no excuse for ridicule, calling it a progam bug,
and taking up your time with such trivialities.

Ken

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povray.org admin team wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> >David Greaves wrote:
> >
> >> If you look at it, even the letter Z (pronounced zed of course)  is
> arrogant.
> >> All those angles and straight lines.
> >
> >"Pronounced zed" ?
> 
> Yep. The English way of saying the letter 'z' is 'zed'. Americans (and
> American
> influenced countries) say 'zee'.
> 
> There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Most of them relate to Americans
> 'simplifying' words or sounds to make them either easier to pronounce,
> or
> easier to say. Hence colour becomes color, Aluminium becomes Aluminum,
> and so
> forth.

Aha! That's where the Aluminum comes from! And I thought I was wrong in
think it should be Aluminium. Goes to show how imperialistic .... (oh
never mind)

Remco

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Using the English (British) Win95 right now - and Word 97 British... and
Encarta World English Edition...
Yup.. they do exist ;)

Matt

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I ssooo hope you're joking here - though you can never quite be sure
sometimes ;)

Matt

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Nice one POV-Team - it's great you're aware of the international (including
British English users) use of your program :)

It can only help get more people in to POV!

Wow.. this has created one of the biggest news-threads I've seen though :P


Matt

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>Whoever is writing  the string/menu resources for  the Windows version is
not
>very adept with words like optimized, minimized, or customized...all of
which
>are misspelled: optimised, minimised, and customised in POVray. Bad
spelling
>is just one of those things that detracts from the professionalism of the
>product and makes users question the intelligence of the authors.


"What's the point of being ignorant, if you can't show it!"
                                                    Farmer in County Kerry,
Ireland

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Az an American az well, I would like to zay that I think thiz personz complaint iz
a perfectly good one.  Fine, wordz like optimized, minimized, and customized might
not in any way impact the actual performanze of the program, but who are U 2 write
anything that doezn't conform to the U Z of A'z form of mutilated Englizh.  We are
the ones who have taken the lowly Z and made it into zomething useful.  Until we
got our handz on it, the only uze for it waz when writing the word zebra.  What a
wazte.

Therefore, I would like to izzue a formal requezt for the following zyntax:

zphere
zuperellipzoid
zor
tranzmit
tranzlate
zcale
zpiral1
zpiral2
wrinklz
mezh
zpotted
zpecular
roughnezz

Therz probably more, but I'm too upzet too think of them.  Az a matter of fact, the
only one you got right waz bozo!

sinzerily,

zelda ziznadiznorn
UZA


povray.org admin team wrote:

> We also would like to officially nominate Jason Barlow for the 'Rudest Support
> Email of 1998' award.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Return-Path: jas### [at] xmissioncom
> From: "Jason Barlow" <jas### [at] xmissioncom>
> To: <win### [at] povrayorg>
> Subject: Minor Bug...
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:03:02 -0600
>
> [request for the following 'bug' to be fixed in version 3.1 deleted]
>
> Whoever is writing  the string/menu resources for  the Windows version is not
> very adept with words like optimized, minimized, or customized...all of which
> are misspelled: optimised, minimised, and customised in POVray. Bad spelling
> is just one of those things that detracts from the professionalism of the
> product and makes users question the intelligence of the authors.
>
> [rest of email deleted]
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> He's questioning _our_ intelligence ... ? ;)
>
> -- POV-Ray Webmaster

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err, i agree its silly someone requests a bugremovement cos there
are misspelled (only in the eyes of guys outside usa) words.

but its against any netiquette to post privat email in a newsgroup.

let abu### [at] xmissioncom or the sysadmin of xmission deal with
jason barlows rudeness.

>Return-Path: jas### [at] xmissioncom
>From: "Jason Barlow" <jas### [at] xmissioncom>
>To: <win### [at] povrayorg>
>Subject: Minor Bug...
>Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:03:02 -0600

>[request for the following 'bug' to be fixed in version 3.1 deleted]

>Whoever is writing  the string/menu resources for  the Windows version is not
>very adept with words like optimized, minimized, or customized...all of which
>are misspelled: optimised, minimised, and customised in POVray. Bad spelling
>is just one of those things that detracts from the professionalism of the
>product and makes users question the intelligence of the authors.

>[rest of email deleted]

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What about the lowly Z-Buffer? ;-)
And what about "The Zone" ;-)

--
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