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.
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§ ita § - Mar 09, 2006 12:22:02 pm PST #911 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
P.M. Marc - Mar 09, 2006 12:29:47 pm PST #916 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
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?
I dunno. I don't recall seeing it in the lists of Websterized things.
I only started thinking about it when my mother started sending email.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2006 12:29:51 pm PST #917 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.
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.
Blame Schrodinger's Cat.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2006 12:35:33 pm PST #918 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know, Plei. My guess is either the American version is changed to distinguish from the British (color/colour), or is the more archaic version that was moved away from in Britain (fall/autumn).
Which is really no use.
Sean K - Mar 09, 2006 12:38:42 pm PST #919 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
They claim they made all those up too, though.
I occasionally claim to be the King of the Moon. I think they're both rather spurious claims. But who knows? Either way, there's jargon I hear regularly, and there's Varietyspeak that I don't.
It's quite possibly a distinction that occurs only in my head, and any excuse to justify my irrational hatred of Varietyspeak will do. I can live with that.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2006 1:50:39 pm PST #920 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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?
This movement, incidentally, being why the Red Sox are spelled with an "x."