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Kayenneh - Newest Moderator
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 (August 6, 2012 at 4:00 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: I wouldn't have known it otherwise, but my dad wrote his own programming language and called it Ghoti, so that is why I know Ah, so you cheated  ! Actually, it's a bit of a linguistic chicanery, supposedly about the English Spelling Reform. As Wikipedia says "Linguists have pointed out that the placement of the letters in the constructed word is in fact inconsistent with the claimed pronunciation." On one level, it's my way of protesting what is usually called Americanised spelling; on another level, the one involving reality, it's a bit of nonsense which appeals to my fondness for the absurd.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
  RE: Kayenneh - Newest Moderator
August 6, 2012 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2012 at 4:24 pm by Rayaan.)
![[Image: 5984238b-3ecb-4417-a914-18773d99fa65.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=images.cheezburger.com%2Fcompletestore%2F2011%2F7%2F12%2F5984238b-3ecb-4417-a914-18773d99fa65.jpg) Couldn't resist. 
RE: Kayenneh - Newest Moderator
August 6, 2012 at 4:37 pm
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(August 6, 2012 at 4:13 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 6, 2012 at 4:11 pm)Stimbo Wrote: On one level, it's my way of protesting what is usually called Americanised spelling I also said I don't stand on ceremony. All I said is that it's usually called that (Stimbo rolls D20 saving roll, gets 14. Applies +1 Dodge; barely makes it). I understand that it's illiterate to end words with "-ise" in English english; it just looks ugly to my eyes.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 ![[Image: cinjin_banner_border.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=oggtheclever.com%2Fcinjin_banner_border.jpg) (August 6, 2012 at 8:08 pm)Darwinian Wrote: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/diction...ericanised There needs to be an emoticon for "I'm yanking Stimbo's chain" on here. Oh wait, there it is: 
Congratulations ^_^
Too busy fishing and reading manga to give you a proper grats 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
RE: Kayenneh - Newest Moderator
August 6, 2012 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2012 at 8:29 pm by Cyberman.)
Hey, my chain is long enough to withstand any amount of yanking - knock yourself out. In my previous, I was going by what John Thaw said when he was being Inspector Morse. A bit esoteric, but the -ise vs. -ize distinction turned out to be the gotcha clue that cracked the whole case. It was his opinion that -ise is illiterate. It's one of the extremely rare instances (barring typos) when I'm willing to sacrifice literate and/or grammatical correctness for aesthetics; as I said, -ize just looks wrong and ugly to me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Did you look at the small print, don't you realise how they are going to use you?
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