Qwerty Warriors Destroy the oncoming soldiers, tanks, mech warriors and other enemies by typing words to shoot them. posted to games -> games by descolada99, Nov 20th, 2006
lemon: um so, even though the language existed for thousands of years before the U.S. did, American English is the standard? Doesn't seem right.
Besides, I've talked to enough people from Texas/West Virginia/Minnesota to determine that Americans just can't speak proper english.
Can't they both be right?
I like interchanging the words.
It's not like English isn't stupid enough with words that are spelt the same but mean different things, but I can't think of an example.
Well, what exactly is "American"? I know people who say y'all, caint, aks, yehknow, and have replaced commas with the word "like". Fuhgeddaboudit, beeyatch, wuhder (I say wuhder) are a few others.
Ebonics, Southeners, Westerners, and Nor' Easterners have basically their own things goin, so it's pretty hard to decide what's "American".
Natural language is like any living thing, it's constantly evolving. The reason we have rules and grammar is so we can have some kind of common ground and make ourselves understood where regional differences occur.
Slang and dialect are great for emphasising regional and cultural unity, but it helps to be able to use formal English as well. And even that's evolving. ZOMG!
What's spelled aluminium? Aluminum isn't!
And spelled isn't spelled spelt!
I know because Firefox 2.0 just underlined them! =)
Thousands of years? Modern English is from around 1550-1600. Uniform spellings didn't take hold until the time of dictionaries, and the first British one predates the first American one by not even 75 years. A far cry from "thousands"!
That's one way of looking at it. However, Wikipedia says:
"Webster's dictionary preferred simpler and more modern spelling, whereas [Samuel] Johnson was more conservative, preferring older spellings which reflected the origins of words rather than pronunciation."
It also says not all the simpler spellings caught on, however, e.g. "tung" for "tongue"...
I realize it isn't earth-shaking, I just find the topic interesting, and the characterization (yes, with a "z"!) of American spellings as "nonsense" needed a retort.
When I said "Thousands" I was referring to the pre-modern english anglo-saxon roots as well. It's not like they simply "invented" the language overnight. It's been around in some form since 5th century, thus:"thousands" (ok, 1.5 thousand or so).
Nonetheless, it's not fair to say that American english is the "Proper" ay to write/speak it, since the language was developed elsewhere & existed prior to the founding of the US.
And yet any given thing's roots aren't necessarily better than what it has become. The desire to respect something's origins is respectable and in some cases it makes sense, whereas in others it does not.
I believe that in the case of the English language spellings and such do not make grounds for a conflict and I am happy to let anybody spell things however they have learned it. But in some cases spellings do become a greater issue. One example is the names of numbers. As wikipedia so helpfully states, "There was also a historical difference between billions, trillions, and so forth. Americans use "billion" to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000), whereas in the UK, until the latter part of the 20th century, it was used to mean one million million (1,000,000,000,000) (although historically such numbers were not often required outside of mathematical and scientific contexts)."
But all of this is why Professor LL Zamenhoff invented Esperanto. So go learn Esperanto, jerks.
^ Thats what I was going to say (the Esperanto part) when Eskimobait suggested that we all begin speaking german, but then I clicked on a link and totally forgot.
Um. Yeah. So anyways, the real title of this game probably should have been "Solid Snake Teaches Typing" or something. By the by, did anyone else have a problem with the computer arbitrarily choosing to let your little guy's bullet "miss" from time to time, making you type the same word twice? What about a non-responsive enter key? I've deduced that it isn't my keyboard.
It's a game that promotes proper spelling, but at least two words used in it are mispelled...?
British spellings.
Well, I made it to number 49 on the scoreboard.
There's silly American spellings in there too. I had to deal with nonsense like "center" and "color".
That's probably what attitudechicka was talking about, Kajun..
I'm sorry that our dictionaries differ from yours, British people. Go blame Webster.
Also, is "tost" a British word? Because I saw it there, too. Along with "somg."
"Mr. Papadopolous, we need to revise and standardise the spelling of the language"
'tost' = a staple used to hold together a magazine
'somg' = a feeling of doubt
they are both super obscure though, i cant see hwo they found their way into this game
*shrugs*
"Nonsense"? The British spellings of color and center are the nonsensical ones. Who says "col-our" or "cen-tray"?
Or let's vote! 60 million vs 300 million, thanks for playing!
American English is the world standard, get used to it.
And this from an Anglophile. Long live Monty Python!
lemon: um so, even though the language existed for thousands of years before the U.S. did, American English is the standard? Doesn't seem right.
Besides, I've talked to enough people from Texas/West Virginia/Minnesota to determine that Americans just can't speak proper english.
Can't they both be right?
I like interchanging the words.
It's not like English isn't stupid enough with words that are spelt the same but mean different things, but I can't think of an example.
Well, what exactly is "American"? I know people who say y'all, caint, aks, yehknow, and have replaced commas with the word "like". Fuhgeddaboudit, beeyatch, wuhder (I say wuhder) are a few others.
Ebonics, Southeners, Westerners, and Nor' Easterners have basically their own things goin, so it's pretty hard to decide what's "American".
UNITED STATES FOR THE UNITED STATESIANS!!
Natural language is like any living thing, it's constantly evolving. The reason we have rules and grammar is so we can have some kind of common ground and make ourselves understood where regional differences occur.
Slang and dialect are great for emphasising regional and cultural unity, but it helps to be able to use formal English as well. And even that's evolving. ZOMG!
Yes, well, who says Aluminum, when it's spelt Aluminium ?
Al-u-min-ium.
:-P
I say aluminum. I also say ain't. Gonna criticize that? (It's a contraction of am not.) Oh snap, I just said gonna. Well I ain't gonna apologize. :P
You know what? To solve all this, let's just start speaking German.
Zieg Heil Deutschland!
Du ist ein scheissekopf...
Du bist ein Scheissekopf.
Entschuldigen Sie mich, haben Sie ich infuenza. Bitte leiten Sie mich zu den Fischhändlern.
Gutentag. Achtung. Er, gezundheit?
What's spelled aluminium? Aluminum isn't!
And spelled isn't spelled spelt!
I know because Firefox 2.0 just underlined them! =)
Thousands of years? Modern English is from around 1550-1600. Uniform spellings didn't take hold until the time of dictionaries, and the first British one predates the first American one by not even 75 years. A far cry from "thousands"!
American spellings were merely a way to be different from the British. It was pretty much just Webster being a tool.
That's one way of looking at it. However, Wikipedia says:
"Webster's dictionary preferred simpler and more modern spelling, whereas [Samuel] Johnson was more conservative, preferring older spellings which reflected the origins of words rather than pronunciation."
It also says not all the simpler spellings caught on, however, e.g. "tung" for "tongue"...
my stance on this is, frankly... who gives a shit?
i will spell and speak the way i want to and i will continue to not care how others do it, just as i would expect them not to care how i do it
if you get me
... and capitalize, apparently.
I realize it isn't earth-shaking, I just find the topic interesting, and the characterization (yes, with a "z"!) of American spellings as "nonsense" needed a retort.
yes, and capitalise
you capitalist pigdog!
When I said "Thousands" I was referring to the pre-modern english anglo-saxon roots as well. It's not like they simply "invented" the language overnight. It's been around in some form since 5th century, thus:"thousands" (ok, 1.5 thousand or so).
Nonetheless, it's not fair to say that American english is the "Proper" ay to write/speak it, since the language was developed elsewhere & existed prior to the founding of the US.
And yet any given thing's roots aren't necessarily better than what it has become. The desire to respect something's origins is respectable and in some cases it makes sense, whereas in others it does not.
I believe that in the case of the English language spellings and such do not make grounds for a conflict and I am happy to let anybody spell things however they have learned it. But in some cases spellings do become a greater issue. One example is the names of numbers. As wikipedia so helpfully states, "There was also a historical difference between billions, trillions, and so forth. Americans use "billion" to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000), whereas in the UK, until the latter part of the 20th century, it was used to mean one million million (1,000,000,000,000) (although historically such numbers were not often required outside of mathematical and scientific contexts)."
But all of this is why Professor LL Zamenhoff invented Esperanto. So go learn Esperanto, jerks.
^ Thats what I was going to say (the Esperanto part) when Eskimobait suggested that we all begin speaking german, but then I clicked on a link and totally forgot.
FurQ:
It is spelled Aluminum here in the States, so it's not a case of people pronouncing aluminium wrong. aluminium is the British alternate spelling.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aluminum
Thanks for playing.
Um. Yeah. So anyways, the real title of this game probably should have been "Solid Snake Teaches Typing" or something. By the by, did anyone else have a problem with the computer arbitrarily choosing to let your little guy's bullet "miss" from time to time, making you type the same word twice? What about a non-responsive enter key? I've deduced that it isn't my keyboard.
Touché, decolada99.
I give up. Who am I to comment on spelling and pronunciation ? I can't even type.
I didn't look too hard, but is this the most commented link on in4?
Not even close. Probably the Crimson Room, if I remember.
I thought it was the in4mador link where brad announced the advent of Avatars?
Or that one where lemoncurry and eltigremask were at each other's eThroats...
or the one where psyconius showed up and gave everyone ice cream