Does anyone have the etymology of the spelling variants?
I was wondering about this for the variant spelling, and whether their source for the variant is Variety itself. Which would just make my head explode all over again.
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Sean K - Mar 09, 2006 12:03:08 pm PST #906 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2006 12:05:20 pm PST #907 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, for the....
Hey, I get crap for my spelling a reasonable amount when I'm not actually wrong, just outside the mainstream. It's a thing. Proactively, "learnt" and "et" are also real spellings.
Those words are actually used by people in the craft when speaking about it. I know of no one who uses "pic," "lens," or "ankle," in conversation.
Which words are "those words"? The link I provided includes lense and ankle. As well as words like biopic that I have heard people use, although the pronunciation seems to be more of an issue than I'd have imagined.
Jessica - Mar 09, 2006 12:09:56 pm PST #908 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I know of no one who uses "pic," "lens," or "ankle," in conversation.
I use all of these, though I suspect my use of the word "ankle" means something else.
Jessica - Mar 09, 2006 12:17:08 pm PST #909 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And on another note entirely, The Muppet Matrix.
Sean K - Mar 09, 2006 12:20:30 pm PST #910 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Which words are "those words"?
Oh, they include a lot of jargon in their glossary -- AD, DP, things like that. I was terribly vague, wasn't I.
And yes, I guess I shouldn't get bent out of shape over actual variant spellings. And I've used both "leanrt" and "et," in covnersation, so I definitely can't get too harsh about variants.
I know of no one who uses "pic," "lens," or "ankle," in conversation.
I use all of these, though I suspect my use of the word "ankle" means something else.
Again, I am shamed for my vagueness. I've used all of those words, too, just not the way Variety uses them.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2006 12:22:02 pm PST #911 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
they include a lot of jargon in their glossary -- AD, DP, things like that. I was terribly vague, wasn't I.
They claim they made all those up too, though.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2006 12:23:31 pm PST #912 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And on another note entirely, The Muppet Matrix.
I so did not need to see Miss Piggy in skin-tight latex ....
P.M. Marc - Mar 09, 2006 12:26:02 pm PST #913 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Proactively, "learnt" and "et" are also real spellings.
This is radically off topic, but do you happen to know off the top of your head around when and why things like spelt, dreamt, and learnt morphed (in the US, at least) into spelled, dreamed, and learned?
Signed, has been too lazy to Google this for two years now.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2006 12:28:22 pm PST #914 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
do you happen to know off the top of your head around when and why things like spelt, dreamt, and learnt morphed (in the US, at least) into spelled, dreamed, and learned?
Was it part of that American "let's make spelling make more sense" movement that "corrected" the spelling of 'colour' to 'color', 'metre' to 'meter', etc?
Kate P. - Mar 09, 2006 12:28:39 pm PST #915 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Is it a prescriptive issue? Does anyone have the etymology of the spelling variants?
I actually have no idea. I just know that I've seen "lens" a lot and "lense" never, that I can recall. Which means precisely nothing, etymologically speaking.
Wait... except now "lense" looks okay to me. But it looked so wrong just a second ago! Oh, and now it looks wrong again. I am confused.