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2--incursion into Phillipines due to it's then status as A SPANISH COLONY! U.S. wasn't looking to add territory to "the Empire" unlike Britain's run--Scotland, Ireland, Canada, colonial America, India, bits of Africa, etc. Not even vaguely equivalent.
3-- Quite right. The world speaks American. it's only you lot that cling to that archaic form of American and call it English. (We call American English out of respect but since you don't seem to like it . . . )
Hotpoint and Wad--I leave for a little while and you trash a perfectly good brawl.
1--not in the least. I just couldn't be bothered to go dig out those original "ponts" so asked you to repeat them. After all, they were your points. Didn't realize you wouldn't remember them either.Originally posted by Hotpoint
1--Well your answer to 2 was immediately overruled by 4
2--The Phillipines a stretch... why? Admitedly the US never had much of an Empire, which limits the available examples, but its behavior was pretty bloody where it did. He who is without sin etc. etc.
3--It doesn't bother me why people learn the language of international trade it's just if it isn't going to be spelled properly, and they're going to use the wrong words for things, they shouldn't call it "English"
2--incursion into Phillipines due to it's then status as A SPANISH COLONY! U.S. wasn't looking to add territory to "the Empire" unlike Britain's run--Scotland, Ireland, Canada, colonial America, India, bits of Africa, etc. Not even vaguely equivalent.
3-- Quite right. The world speaks American. it's only you lot that cling to that archaic form of American and call it English. (We call American English out of respect but since you don't seem to like it . . . )
Hotpoint and Wad--I leave for a little while and you trash a perfectly good brawl.
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However the heights on aeronautical standards are set as standard in feet and AFAIK it's only the French that insist on endangering human life by refusing to acknowledge this.
Must be an Agincourt thang
Well we don't actually, I work in SI units, don't in the slightest understand feet and inches unlike our American bretheren.Originally posted by Fab81
Yes, why Brits and American continue to use a measurement system completly archaic...
Im glad that we use the international measurement system in France, at least physics, mecanics are simpler...you don't have to do mad unit conversion. And this system is based on a rationnal scientific model, not on the size of my foot
However the heights on aeronautical standards are set as standard in feet and AFAIK it's only the French that insist on endangering human life by refusing to acknowledge this.
Must be an Agincourt thang
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I quit, I won!Originally posted by Hotpoint
You're arguing linguistics. I'm arguing common usage, technically from a linguists point of view I'm speaking RP English (Received Pronunciation) but nobody really calls it that
Anyway given the reality that you and your countrymen don't call what you speak "American English" but rather just "English" I'm afraid your argument from scholarship is on dodgy ground
All Americans appear to think they know it all and I never give up on an argument because I almost invariably win in the end through sheer persistance, logic and bloody-mindedness
As for "Bull****ting" that's not my style
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My apologies Baca. I misinterpreted your post and thought you were being hypocritical wheras you were just being too lazy to go back and look at an earlier pageOriginally posted by Baca Loco
1--I just couldn't be bothered to go dig out those original "ponts" so asked you to repeat them. After all, they were your points. Didn't realize you wouldn't remember them either.
I didn't so much refer to the US seizing the Islands during the Spanish-American War of 1896 but rather the US actions in the Islands afterwards. Very bloody indeed... check the histories
No you don't most of you call it EnglishOriginally posted by Baca Loco
3-- (We call American English out of respect but since you don't seem to like it . . . )
My apologiesOriginally posted by Baca Loco
Hotpoint and Wad--I leave for a little while and you trash a perfectly good brawl.
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You quit... I win by default
Like hellOriginally posted by Wadidiz
I quit, I won!
You quit... I win by default
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2--let me just say, Shaka Zulu
3--please re-read my statement. Place comma between American and English. If you insist on claiming the language the least you could do is manage to comprehend it.
4--apology accepted.
1--you do that alot.Originally posted by Hotpoint
1--I misinterpreted your post
2--I didn't so much refer to the US seizing the Islands during the Spanish-American War of 1896 but rather the US actions in the Islands afterwards. Very bloody indeed... check the histories
3--No you don't most of you call it English
4--My apologies
2--let me just say, Shaka Zulu
3--please re-read my statement. Place comma between American and English. If you insist on claiming the language the least you could do is manage to comprehend it.
4--apology accepted.
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2 - I'm not claiming we're clean just that you're not either
3 - Assumed you were following Wadditz line and meant American hyphen English not American comma English but if I was wrong then I've got to say you'd be showing more respect not calling what you speak English
And for the record I'd rather be annoying the French
1 - I blame the authorOriginally posted by Baca Loco
1--you do that alot.
2--let me just say, Shaka Zulu
3--please re-read my statement. Place comma between American and English. If you insist on claiming the language the least you could do is manage to comprehend it.
4--apology accepted.
2 - I'm not claiming we're clean just that you're not either
3 - Assumed you were following Wadditz line and meant American hyphen English not American comma English but if I was wrong then I've got to say you'd be showing more respect not calling what you speak English
And for the record I'd rather be annoying the French
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I prefer that you annoy these Americans, its funnier.
Originally posted by Hotpoint
And for the record I'd rather be annoying the French
I prefer that you annoy these Americans
, its funnier.