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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 20:25
by sj16936724
Canadian English? Spelling just like British English, the right way, but we use American terms like gas instead of petrol.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 20:54
by Kage
Habari wrote:BRITISH ENGLISH = REAL ENGLISH
AMERICAN ENGLISH = RUBBISH
Again, what makes British English "Real English"?
If you mean because it came before American English. Does that mean that Old English is better because it came before British English?
Your argument is flawed.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 21:24
by Goku
So American English is the newest? Let's go with that. Unless Canadian English is newer, but come on, it's Canada.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 22:19
by kr0n05931
Kage wrote:Habari wrote:BRITISH ENGLISH = REAL ENGLISH
AMERICAN ENGLISH = RUBBISH
Again, what makes British English "Real English"?
If you mean because it came before American English. Does that mean that Old English is better because it came before British English?
Your argument is flawed.
Out of the two, American English is actually more pure, since we still have the accent marks in many of our words.
Matinée, Fiancé, Animé
We even have umlauts!
über, naïve
We even mix it up a little
naïvéte
We even pronounce many words like they were in French, German, and Spanish
Envoy (Ohn voy), Valet (Val ay), Amigo (Ah me goh), Quesadilla (Kay suh dee ya), Fraulein (Fr aw line)
We also still use the Persian -ck instead of the French -que in words
chequered (British) -> checkered (American), cheque (British) -> check (American)
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 01:06
by Jaxad0127
kr0n05931 wrote:Kage wrote:Habari wrote:BRITISH ENGLISH = REAL ENGLISH
AMERICAN ENGLISH = RUBBISH
Again, what makes British English "Real English"?
If you mean because it came before American English. Does that mean that Old English is better because it came before British English?
Your argument is flawed.
Out of the two, American English is actually more pure, since we still have the accent marks in many of our words.
Matinée, Fiancé, Animé
We even have umlauts!
über, naïve
We even mix it up a little
naïvéte
We even pronounce many words like they were in French, German, and Spanish
Envoy (Ohn voy), Valet (Val ay), Amigo (Ah me goh), Quesadilla (Kay suh dee ya), Fraulein (Fr aw line)
We also still use the German -ck instead of the French -que in words
chequered (British) -> checkered (American), Cheque (British) -> Check (American)
Don't forget more Latin spellings, like sulfur instead of sulphur.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 01:51
by Black Don
sj16936724 wrote:Canadian English? Spelling just like British English, the right way, but we use American terms like gas instead of petrol.
I agree Canadian English is best cause you can spell it any old way and no one gives a rats arse about it. Maybe being Canadian makes me be bias but I also like taking the British and American versions and 'bending them over' and have my way with them.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 02:00
by Ben141
Use klingon!
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 14:06
by trapdoor
I will always use British English, since American English was created mainly to remove the french influence of English, which seems like a complete waste of time to me.
Others can feel free to translate if needed, but all my work on the client and server will use British English.
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trapdoor
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 17:21
by Rotonen
As long as it is consistent with itself, almost no one cares.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 17:47
by Kage
trapdoor wrote:Others can feel free to translate if needed, but all my work on the client and server will use British English.
I feel the same way. I know American English, I don't know British well. So I write American.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 18:07
by Grism
GoogleTranslatorEnglish! xD
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 07:23
by kr0n05931
trapdoor wrote:I will always use British English, since American English was created mainly to remove the french influence of English, which seems like a complete waste of time to me.
Others can feel free to translate if needed, but all my work on the client and server will use British English.
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trapdoor
Actually, you're wrong there.
The Francophile-era Britain went through that caused it to adopt certain French words and endings on its words was unexperienced by the Americas because it happened in the
19th century, a time when Britain and America were very, very angry at one another. Therefore, the extra French influences happened
after the split between American and British English, which started way back in
1607 when Jamestown was founded in Virginia.
Extra French influences (Occurring AFTER 1781):
Che
ck (Persian: Ú†Ú© (Anglicized: Chek) ) -> Che
que (French-like phonetic spelling)
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 09:01
by CapitanAwesome
+1 for AUSSIE ENGLISH!
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 13:16
by Pandemonium
I am completely American... being that I'm a mutt of more then 8 different nationalities. I have no problem reading and understanding English in any form.
The differences (in any English dialect)are just semantics, like calling something rubbish or trash, gas or petrol, lift or elevator, wanker or jerk... it will still get us to the conclusion about whatever the said topic would be. Any one with a Brain will know whats being said you just have to pay attention.
So if its for NPC text, it shouldn't be a big deal at all... As for you programming just add a ";American English" or ";British English" even ":Aussie English" at the top of your code so any one looking at it after you will know going in to it what to exspect, language wise.
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 13:28
by Crush
Pandemonium wrote:So if its for NPC text, it shouldn't be a big deal at all... As for you programming just add a ";American English" or ";British English" even ":Aussie English" at the top of your code so any one looking at it after you will know going in to it what to exspect, language wise.
Wish it would be so easy...
Code interoperability is the key.
It is really annoying when you write code like
which fails to compile and after a half hour of troubleshooting you realize that the guy who wrote the class of Object named the method setColo
ur.
Even more awkward situations arrive when you use classes from people with different dialects together:
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object->setColour(otherObject->getColor());