Should TMW use British English or American English?
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
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?
Again, what makes British English "Real English"?Habari wrote:BRITISH ENGLISH = REAL ENGLISH
AMERICAN ENGLISH = RUBBISH
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.
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
So American English is the newest? Let's go with that. Unless Canadian English is newer, but come on, it's Canada.
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Out of the two, American English is actually more pure, since we still have the accent marks in many of our words.Kage wrote:Again, what makes British English "Real English"?Habari wrote:BRITISH ENGLISH = REAL ENGLISH
AMERICAN ENGLISH = RUBBISH
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.
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We even have umlauts!
über, naïve
We even mix it up a little
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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)
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Don't forget more Latin spellings, like sulfur instead of sulphur.kr0n05931 wrote:Out of the two, American English is actually more pure, since we still have the accent marks in many of our words.Kage wrote:Again, what makes British English "Real English"?Habari wrote:BRITISH ENGLISH = REAL ENGLISH
AMERICAN ENGLISH = RUBBISH
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.
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)
Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
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.sj16936724 wrote:Canadian English? Spelling just like British English, the right way, but we use American terms like gas instead of petrol.
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
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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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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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
As long as it is consistent with itself, almost no one cares.
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
I feel the same way. I know American English, I don't know British well. So I write American.trapdoor wrote: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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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
Actually, you're wrong there.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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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):
Check (Persian: Ú†Ú© (Anglicized: Chek) ) -> Cheque (French-like phonetic spelling)
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
+1 for AUSSIE ENGLISH!
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Re: Should TMW use British English or American English?
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.
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?
Wish it would be so easy...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.
Code interoperability is the key.
It is really annoying when you write code like
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object->setColor(col);
Even more awkward situations arrive when you use classes from people with different dialects together:
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object->setColour(otherObject->getColor());
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