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YUMAD BRO
ZZ Cow
#61 - 2012-03-26 01:45:23 UTC
adopt wrote:
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Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

Armour Kinetic Hardner II


Might I ask why you subjugate the people who can spell and pronounce the language correctly to such fallacy? Why am I forced to spell like an American when I am English? I cannot comprehend why, I, as an Englishman, am forced to improperly spell my native language.

Discuss.




Cause the English suck Ck...

Discuss...







fck nub lolol
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#62 - 2012-03-26 01:54:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Ranger 1
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Peri Simone
Black Rebel Rifter Club
The Devil's Tattoo
#63 - 2012-03-26 02:01:04 UTC
Terminal Insanity wrote:
CCP Veritas wrote:
I'ma just leave this here.

Irrelevant

"Armor" is how the majority of people spell it and is how everyone is used to spelling it in this game

Changing it to "Armour" now would be a pain to the majority of your subscribers and would be forcing them all to un-learn their local spelling styles


I think you rather missed the point there, Terminal.

Re the OP, this is the sort of spluttering nonsense that retired colonels with nothing better to do write to the broadsheets in green ink. The English language is in constant flux, it always has been, and to affect surprise that American English is used in an internationally played game is ludicrous with even a brief consideration of recent world history.
Sasha Azala
Doomheim
#64 - 2012-03-26 02:13:44 UTC
Another thread that's a fuss about nothing.


I think basically, it's because if you speak/read English you can understand American. Most game software I've seen uses the American version mainly because their gaming market and population are much larger.

There's nothing stopping you typing in English, it's not like it's going to corrupt the way you spell something. Not unless you're a complete moron.
Sekket
Perkone
Caldari State
#65 - 2012-03-26 02:36:51 UTC
Terminal Insanity wrote:

http://grammarist.com/spelling/armor-armour/
Funny fact but "Armor" is actually the proper american spelling. Just like Color.


Yeah, I was wondering what he was getting at. Here I am thinking "Looks British to me."
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Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#66 - 2012-03-26 02:39:45 UTC
1. arm-our
2. arm-or

yep when you pronounce option 1 you sound like a moron, when you pronounce option 2 it's a real word. oh look thats how it is spelled as well

also iirc america is something like 20 times the population of england and canada and pretty much anywhere else that speaks a form of english.
Vyktor Abyss
Abyss Research
#67 - 2012-03-26 02:46:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Vyktor Abyss
I too would like a localised British Eve client! Big smile

America is a poor facsimile of Britain. Britain gifted America our place names, our language and our traditions yet most Americans can't even find Britain on a map. Now the troglodites have the audacity to tell us we're doing our own language wrong.

Fiddlesticks.
Mr LaForge
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#68 - 2012-03-26 03:02:43 UTC
arm or leg?
arm our weapons?

Stuff Goes here
Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#69 - 2012-03-26 03:09:35 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
1. arm-our
2. arm-or

yep when you pronounce option 1 you sound like a moron, when you pronounce option 2 it's a real word. oh look thats how it is spelled as well

also iirc america is something like 20 times the population of england and canada and pretty much anywhere else that speaks a form of english.


That's only because of all the illegal immigrants, if you actually counted the number of people who are literate in English it would be a lot less.

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Gistatis Tribunus
Doomheim
#70 - 2012-03-26 03:17:36 UTC
The color of the knight's armor added to his honor of defense to his castle. He ran to the center of battlefield and pierced through the enemy knight like his armor was made of aluminum. Even though he was within meters of defeat, the fibers of his undershirt remained wholly intact.
Gistatis Tribunus
Doomheim
#71 - 2012-03-26 03:18:26 UTC
If you're getting at having the brit spelling link to the actual item then yeah I'd agree with you
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#72 - 2012-03-26 03:31:06 UTC
You English folk have been bitching for what seems like almost 237 years now. When will it stop?
Sasha Azala
Doomheim
#73 - 2012-03-26 03:38:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Sasha Azala
Marlona Sky wrote:
You English folk have been bitching for what seems like almost 237 years now. When will it stop?



Not all English folk ***** about such things.

I for one would not care if we changed armour to armor, it would make it easier for non-Americans/non-English to understand. We borrowed Armour (Armoire) from the French anyway in the Middle Ages.
Geodeath
Fist of God
#74 - 2012-03-26 03:40:44 UTC
adopt wrote:
Quote:
File not valid

Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

Armour Kinetic Hardner II


Might I ask why you subjugate the people who can spell and pronounce the language correctly to such fallacy? Why am I forced to spell like an American when I am English? I cannot comprehend why, I, as an Englishman, am forced to improperly spell my native language.

Discuss.


LOL. People on islands are always so right. We should all be like them, being the barbaric haters of monarchy that we are.

God save the misspelled.
Selinate
#75 - 2012-03-26 03:41:19 UTC
I'll only accept the changes in spelling if they add crumpets and tea as pos fuel, made from Veldspar and goonswarm corpses, in honor of the queen.
OT Smithers
A Farewell To Kings...
Dock Workers
#76 - 2012-03-26 04:22:45 UTC
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/my-face-when-americans-call.png

Learn to speak proper American. Like i told the teacher lady the only tree letters i needs to no are

U S an A
Ender Karazaki
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#77 - 2012-03-26 04:49:47 UTC
As a Brit, I couldn't give a flying ****.
Onictus
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#78 - 2012-03-26 05:10:39 UTC
Vyktor Abyss wrote:
I too would like a localised British Eve client! Big smile

America is a poor facsimile of Britain. Britain gifted America our place names, our language and our traditions yet most Americans can't even find Britain on a map. Now the troglodites have the audacity to tell us we're doing our own language wrong.

Fiddlesticks.


More like kicked you the **** out and came back 180 years later to save you.

.....and lol troglodites? Mythic underground denziens that decended from above and taught the Greeks numerous disciplines of science and philosophy? You didn't learn all mythology from d&d and warcraft did you?

No one is trying to take you tea, the whining is hilarious though.
Scerwup
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#79 - 2012-03-26 05:22:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Scerwup
Vyktor Abyss wrote:

America is a poor facsimile of Britain. Britain gifted America our place names, our language and our traditions yet most Americans can't even find Britain on a map. Now the troglodites have the audacity to tell us we're doing our own language wrong.


I just can't let this slide. Britain didn't "gift" us with anything. The only thing you attempted to gift us with was an oppressive monarchy, which we stood and fought to get away from. We also have no need to find Britain on a map, because, to be quite honest, we could care less about you. Go drink your tea, and continue thinking that English belongs to you.

Good Day
Serene Repose
#80 - 2012-03-26 05:37:46 UTC
I'm in support of the OP as long as it's East End English - favvah (father).

We must accommodate the idiocracy.