or "okay"?

"gray" or "grey"?

"aluminum" or "aluminium"?

8/18/2008 8:12:41 PM

Aluminium?

8/18/2008 8:13:29 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

8/18/2008 8:14:14 PM

Bweez
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ok?

8/18/2008 8:06:54 PM
FykalJpn
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WELL OKAY THEN

8/18/2008 8:07:59 PM




i am honored to be the inspiration for your thread

8/18/2008 8:14:23 PM

ok, gray, aluminum

8/18/2008 8:14:34 PM

"okay"

"gray"

"my penis"

8/18/2008 8:15:58 PM

aighty

shady

quagmire02's penis

8/18/2008 8:17:07 PM

it's "OK" or "okay"

"ok" is nothing

8/18/2008 8:17:43 PM

and it's OK.

okay is like putting pee-ess at the end of a letter.

8/18/2008 8:19:14 PM

ok

its an abbreviation


of okay

8/18/2008 8:19:43 PM

no, it's not

8/18/2008 8:20:35 PM

meh, i usually use okay, grey, and aluminium--even though i still pronounce it 'aluminum'

how about "catalog" or "catalogue"?

8/18/2008 8:21:26 PM

both are acceptable

8/18/2008 8:21:58 PM

i know this, i mean with regard to personal preference

8/18/2008 8:23:11 PM

ah

see, i thought it was an acceptability thread at first

because "ok" is completely unacceptable

but in this case

"catalog"

8/18/2008 8:24:43 PM

Quote :

"ok its an abbreviation of okay oll korrect"

[Edited on August 18, 2008 at 8:25 PM. Reason : fhds]

8/18/2008 8:24:44 PM

Quote :

"meh, i usually use okay, grey, and aluminium--even though i still pronounce it 'aluminum' how about "catalog" or "catalogue"?"

That's about the lamest shit I've ever heard

Do you use "centre"

or "colour"

or "lift"

or "boot"

or "g'day guv"

THIS IS AMERICA MAN

[Edited on August 18, 2008 at 8:29 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2008 8:29:40 PM

i say lift and boot sometimes...?

8/18/2008 8:34:17 PM

haha, it's still called english homie

8/18/2008 8:34:36 PM

k

8/18/2008 8:42:42 PM

Quote :

"haha, it's still called english homie"

It's called American English, homie.

Regularly using aluminium or catalogue or any other British English makes you more pretentious than vinylbandit.

8/18/2008 8:44:41 PM

if i read 'okay' i just assume the person is gay

8/18/2008 8:45:48 PM

gray and grey are both acceptible

8/18/2008 8:46:17 PM

What's wrong with being pretentious a la vinylbandit?

8/18/2008 8:51:15 PM

aluminium is the standard international name, and it corresponds to the spelling of other elements like vanadium; likewise with catalogue--no one spells monologue as "monolog"

8/18/2008 8:57:01 PM

BUT THIS IS AMURICA

It's sad how many don't see the big picture of the world. Just what's inside our borders.

8/18/2008 8:58:10 PM

It has nothing to do with a narrow world view; you're just going out of your way to be a twat.

8/18/2008 9:01:19 PM

Quote :

"likewise with catalogue--no one spells monologue as "monolog""

different etymologies

8/18/2008 9:07:12 PM

neg

[Edited on August 18, 2008 at 9:14 PM. Reason : they all derive from the same greek suffix]

8/18/2008 9:12:46 PM

logos/lego

[Edited on August 18, 2008 at 9:22 PM. Reason : closely related, but not the same]

8/18/2008 9:20:24 PM

monologue:

Quote :

"Middle French, French monologue speech in a play delivered by a single actor (early 16th cent.; 1811 in sense ‘long speech delivered by one person who forgets or neglects the presence of others’) < mono- MONO- comb. form + -logue -LOGUE comb. form."

-logue:

Quote :

"the form assumed by the Gr. [-logos] in adapted words (most of them through Fr.), as analogue, catalogue, dialogue. The words with this ending which are designations of persons (in most instances repr. actual or assumed Gr. compounds of - ‘speaker, discourser’, and related to parallel formations in -logy) are now little used, derivatives in -loger, -logist, or -logian being commonly preferred. Examples are Assyriologue, astrologue, ideologue, philologue, Sinologue, theologue."

straight from the OED, buddy

8/18/2008 9:27:01 PM

i think the word you're looking for is ~

8/18/2008 9:52:53 PM

you're mom

8/18/2008 9:53:36 PM

i prefer grey

(because it was Gandalf the Grey )

[Edited on August 18, 2008 at 9:54 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2008 9:53:57 PM

i was doing a project for a plant in england this morning

and was trying to decide if i should use

"Deionisation" or "Deionization"

and decided fuck em

I ROLL WITH Z'S NIGGA

8/18/2008 9:55:05 PM

-ize is more appropriate etymologically speaking

[Edited on August 18, 2008 at 10:00 PM. Reason : that's what OED uses]

8/18/2008 9:56:21 PM

no you're all wrong and are going to feel stupid once a real troll gets here

8/18/2008 10:09:53 PM

I fucking resent that

8/18/2008 10:11:17 PM