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Music Head · #1 Post by **Music Head** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:58 am

are the A and b tiles the same colour?

PS. We Aussies put a u in our color

Gronagor · #2 Post by **Gronagor** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:04 am

Heh. I think only the Americans got lazy and removed the 'u'.

*whistles* That's a nice one. 100% the same colour at #6B6B6B

Music Head · #3 Post by **Music Head** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:41 am

it's soo weird, why does it look like it is not when it's not?

charachu · #4 Post by **charachu** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:17 pm

It's a visual illusion...like that forky one...or an Escher piece..

Kurdt · #5 Post by **Kurdt** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:27 pm

Gronagar wrote:Heh. I think only the Americans got lazy and removed the 'u'.

Gron, I think you confused the words "got lazy" with the words "decided to improve it." It's an honest mistake, typically made by crazy Brits, Aussies, and South Africans.

Blackthorne519 · #6 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:14 pm

We took 'u' out of color, because we wanted EVERYONE to enjoy, not just one person. We Americans want to share our love with the entire freedom loving world. $1.99, on sale at WalMart. Buy your piece of Freedom today by wearing colors of Fredom!

Bt

#7 Post by **Erpy** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:20 pm

By the logic of the assumption that taking letters out of words in order to make them shorter and thus easier to spell is, in fact, "improvement", l33tsp34k is the ultimate improvement on the english language in general.

Vildern · #8 Post by **Vildern** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:24 pm

Heh. I think only the Americans got lazy and removed the 'u'.

It wasn't laziness, it was a modification imposed by Webster. It's more logical this way. What's the logic in taking from French the word 'centre' (which they took from Latin?) and leave it the same? Sure, in French it looks great, but in English Webster thought "center" is more appropriate.

And Erpy, iirc, Dutch had some considerable modifications as such recently? The same applies to German.

Blackthorne519 · #9 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:49 pm

Erpy wrote:By the logic of the assumption that taking letters out of words in order to make them shorter and thus easier to spell is, in fact, "improvement", l33tsp34k is the ultimate improvement on the english language in general.

D00d, u r s0 r][ght, y0u r teh r0xs0rsz teh b1g 11111!!!!!!!!

Bt

Gronagor · #10 Post by **Gronagor** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:35 pm

Kurdt wrote: Gron, I think you confused the words "got lazy" with the words "decided to improve it." It's an honest mistake, typically made by crazy Brits, Aussies, and South Africans.

Does it really make sense? The two O's doesn't even sound slightly similar. Got nothing to do with 'improvement', but got everything to do with 'going out of the way to be different from the rest of the world'.

Vildern · #11 Post by **Vildern** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:03 pm

What you've just said might be true regarding many aspects of the Americans, but please, don't say false things.

The shift from 'colour' to 'color' was not made overnight, in a wish to be different. We all agree that phonetically speaking, English is among the worse from those who use the Latin alphabet. There was a man named Webster, whot thought the same, he had influence and wished to simplify it. If you ask me, the American way - 'center' - is far better than the Brittish way 'centre', simply because it's written as it sounds, as it should be. Same goes to 'color'. The 'u' there serves no point.

rugged · #12 Post by **rugged** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:19 am

How ironic is the word phonetically. If you wanted to muck around with the language and start changing things wouldn't the first change be to foneticly

Blackthorne519 · #13 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:28 am

English is perfect. All your base are belong to us.

Bt

Quest For Glory Fan · #14 Post by **Quest For Glory Fan** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:10 am

after reading that "I feel asleep"- Metal Gear 1985

Jafar · #15 Post by **Jafar** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:14 am

YOU'RE WINNER!

Parhelion · #16 Post by **Parhelion** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:58 am

I suppose it should be "culler." Whenever I see the non-American spelling of "colour" my mind always wants to pronounce the last syllable like "velour."

PS: Has anybody seen this: http://www.engrish.com ???

Meerbat · #17 Post by **Meerbat** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:02 pm

Here is an Anti-1337 Manifesto

Vildern · #18 Post by **Vildern** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:54 pm

31337ist have filtered into every place in our society. They work at your school, they work at the store near your house, some of them may even live on your street. These peope are not to be hated, for it is not their fault that the 12-year-olds have lured them into using 1337. These peoply are to be pitied for he way that they are misguided. These are probably the same types of people who buy Linux licenses from SCO.

Scary.... We need a "puke" emoticon for this kind of things.

Pidgeot · #19 Post by **Pidgeot** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:29 pm

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