In South Chicago for example, 'over there' becomes 'over by dere'

Even in America we can't pick pronunciation ...

-- Ron
povray.org admin team wrote in message
<36053b2a.48950236@news.povray.org>...
>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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Hell, Wisconsin people have asked me where the 'bubbler' is ... and I have
blown spit bubbles ..

How would I know that meant a drinking fountain?

-- Ron

Ken wrote in message <36054595.82F405B0@pacbell.net>...
>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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Your british, aren't you??? <g>

-- Ron
Mark Radosevich wrote in message <360871A6.66BFD0C3@randolph.SPAM.edu>...
>> >but its against any netiquette to post privat email in a newsgroup.
>>
>> 1) not all of the email was posted (just the offending section)
>>
>> 2) mail sent to the bug reporting address is hardly 'private'.
>>    'private' email is that sent between individuals for the
>>    purpose of communications. a bug report is obviously something
>>    that may be disseminated to others (that's half the reason for
>>    sending them in some cases).
>>
>> so your comments don't apply in this case. we do not consider bug reports
>> private.
>
>hmmm... a good point, and a good reply...
>I know I'm splitting hairs here, but I've gotta say this: I think it's safe
to
>say that Jason considered his e-mail to be private, and certainly not to be
>posted in a newsgroup to be laughed at. As inconsiderate as he may be, he
>doesn't deserve our unkindness in return. Whether all of the e-mail was
posted
>or not isn't really the point; some of it was posted, and his e-mail
address
>was not omitted (I haven't checked to see whether it is an actual address),
>presumably without his knowledge. That's questionable netiquette,
especially
>considering the tone of the post ("We also would like to officially
nominate
>Jason Barlow for the 'Rudest Support Email of 1998' award.") I would be
>surprised if he hasn't received other e-mails, which were actually
encouraged:
>
>>we're posting this here in the hope that some of
>>his fellow POV Users will also be able to explain this to him in a more
>>reasoned way (rather then the somewhat annoyed tone of our reply ;)
>
>Chances are that not all of them were intelligently and patiently written.
>Personally, I hope that the quick reply, written "in no uncertain terms",
was
>enough for Jason to realise how thoughtless he was. If not, then he may
flaunt
>his ignorance elsewhere, with other consequences. I agree that he was
>surprisingly inconsiderate, but he doesn't deserve this public ridicule.
Had
>he posted that message himself, I wouldn't post this one, but he didn't, so
I have.
>
>
>
>-Mark R.
>(considering what a Macophile I am, it's amusing that I'm posting to
'povray.windows'...)
>
>(to e-mail, change "SPAM" to spa)

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Its all english, and it's all readable.  Lets just all get along!

-- Ron
povray.org admin team wrote in message
<361426a9.436588571@news.povray.org>...
>"Tom Galvin" <tga### [at] dataforgecom> wrote:
>
>>>We (the collective 'we' here being, I suppose, any non-American English
>>>speaker, though I can hardly profess to speak for all of them) don't mind
>>>Americans changing the language in the least
>>
>>If we exclude the English and the Americans then we are left with the
Kiwis,
>>Aussies, Irish, Welsh and the Scots. Any one who has heard those
>>interpretations of English should have little to say about American
English.
>
>Precisely. So we don't complain about their english, just about the fact
that a
>few of them rudely complain about _ours_.
>
>This is the whole point, one that some readers have failed to 'get'. We're
all
>welcome to do whatever we like to our own regional variations of English.
But
>none of us should go about implying that someone else lacks intelligence
(as
>Jason did to us) because that other person uses their own, regional,
variation
>of English spelling (regardless of whether or not it is 'true' English as
the
>English spell it).
>
>No-one here has said the Americans have it wrong, and the
Aussies/Irish/Kiwis
>etc. have it right. Just that we're not wrong, either (yes, it's possible
for
>both of us to be right).
>
>Had I been an Australian user of a software package and had written to an
>American firm rudely questioning their intelligence because they spelt
minimise
>with a 'z' then I would have been just as guilty. But I won't, because I
know
>that Americans have their own spelling and I respect that fact.
>
>I've never yet personally come across a software package that does menu and
>documentation spelling substitutions based on the country settings - not
even
>Microsoft Word [a likely candidate] does that. [FWIW Word does correctly
mark
>words such as 'minimize' as incorrectly spelt, and suggests the 's'
variation,
>when set to British English].
>
>Therefore, software (for the time being) is likely to continue to come out
with
>its own regional spelling in documentation and menus, and there's little
that
>can be done about it except just accept it.

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Hey!   There are american'z here who don't zpeak dat latin ztuff.    Clue uz
in!
Lance Birch wrote in message <3611a571.0@news.povray.org>...
>Um, Ken... I don't ACTUALLY speak Latin!  (Despite the my last post :-*
Hey,
>did you honk? ;-)
>
>> Ve'ni, vi'di, vi'ci, di'es ir'ae.
>> Vae vic'tis, sic tran'sit glo'ria mun'di.
>
>Anyway, what does your message translate to???
>
>Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et
>fructuosis potiri potes! :-)
>
>And just for fun:
>
>Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad
>caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
>
>or
>
>Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus! (OK, maybe not)
>
>HAVE FUN!!!
>
>--
>Lance.
>
>
>---
>For the latest MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
>The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
>
>

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No espeakun latinum no getum jokuim. So solly Cholly.

Ken Tyler

Ron Bieber wrote:

> Hey!   There are american'z here who don't zpeak dat latin ztuff.    Clue uz
> in!

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>>Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et
>>fructuosis potiri potes! :-)

translates to...

If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in
the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!

>>Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad
>>caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

translates to...

I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will
fling an enormous rock at your head.

>>Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus! (OK, maybe not)

translates to...

Let's all wear mood rings!  ;-)

Did that clear that up? : )

Oh, and adid I meantion this one...

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota
monax materiam possit materiari?

which translates to...

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood?

--
Lance.


---
For the latest MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
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Ron Bieber wrote:
> 
> Your british, aren't you??? <g>

nope, merely a nonconformist :)

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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:02:49 +0000, Mark Radosevich 
	<mar### [at] randolphspaedu> wrote:
>Ron Bieber wrote:
>> 
>> Your british, aren't you??? <g>
>
>nope, merely a nonconformist :)

This thread was dead, can't we leave it that way, please?

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Ron Parker <par### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in article
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> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:02:49 +0000, Mark Radosevich 
> 	<mar### [at] randolphspaedu> wrote:
> >Ron Bieber wrote:
> >> 
> >> Your british, aren't you??? <g>
> >
> >nope, merely a nonconformist :)
> 
> This thread was dead, can't we leave it that way, please?

	Didn't you hear ? Some of us had a seance, we just wanted a chat with
Elvis, but it all went a bit wrong and we ended up pulling this poor thread
out from beyond the grave.

-- 
Scott Hill
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Software Engineer (and all round nice guy)
Author of Pandora's Box
Company homepage : http://www.ddlinks.demon.co.uk

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