Study - Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse'
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 01:26
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Study - Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse'
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Re: Study - Climate change 'will cause civilisation to colla
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 02:31
[quote="Kieran"]
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 02:44
Civilisation. It's spelt with an "s" in the UK. It's just you damned uppity Yankees messing around with our language that's got you confused.
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 05:22
Two countries separated by the same language?Kieran wrote:Civilisation. It's spelt with an "s" in the UK. It's just you damned uppity Yankees messing around with our language that's got you confused.
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 07:03
It seems the most "correct" way to spell civilisation is with an "s" as the word has its origin in the Latin "ciuilis", "of the citizen".
Re: Study - Climate change 'will cause civilisation to colla
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 09:45
Hehe! And anyone criticising a native speaker's use of English should check his own grammar.RGR wrote:Does it strike anyone else as strange that any article which wants to proclaim the end of the world should at least spells the words in the catchy, end of the world, title correctly?
BTW, this from The Political Compass could be your answer RGR.
When are you guys gonna learn to spell ?
This grievance comes from pernikety people who have leapt into attack without checking the FAQs ..and without even the remotest realisation that British and American words are sometimes spelt differently. They should have travelled more! We've been at the centre of some rancour, but we're not going to take offence or harbour any grievances. The catalogue of their ill-informed certainties won't colour this organisation's programme. It's a grey area anyway. And we don't want to labour the point. Except to add that most of these cavillous correspondents seem to feel that they have a licence or a blank cheque for a level of rudeness that more civilised souls wouldn't have dreamt of. In response, we nevertheless practise polite dialogue, enabling them to recognise that the error is entirely their own. (We manoeuvre them towards the Oxford English Reference Dictionary, which is also an encyclopaedia.) This leaves them quite defenceless, which may account for the fact that these less than honourable individuals virtually never apologise.
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 10:38
Not so. The 'z' variants are valid British English, and in fact used to be the normal way of spelling. British English moved towards the 's' variant, while Americans stuck with the original.Kieran wrote:Civilisation. It's spelt with an "s" in the UK. It's just you damned uppity Yankees messing around with our language that's got you confused.
Re: Study - Climate change 'will cause civilisation to colla
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 11:00
Your 'which' should have been a 'that' and 'spells' did not need the final 's'.RGR wrote:Does it strike anyone else as strange that any article which wants to proclaim the end of the world should at least spells the words in the catchy, end of the world, title correctly?
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 11:16
Yes, but can an article spell?
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 12:43
OK. Should have dug out my copy of Chambers, but it's buried under a huge pile of books right now. His grammar was crap though.caspian wrote:Not so. The 'z' variants are valid British English, and in fact used to be the normal way of spelling. British English moved towards the 's' variant, while Americans stuck with the original.Kieran wrote:Civilisation. It's spelt with an "s" in the UK. It's just you damned uppity Yankees messing around with our language that's got you confused.
Re: Study - Climate change 'will cause civilisation to colla
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 12:56
[quote="biffvernon"]
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 16:29
.For all I know about "proper" English, you could be correct, or you could be trying to convince me to insult the Queen in some quaintly British way
The unresolved rebellion in the American colonies is an insult to the Queen.
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 01:37
[quote="Vortex"][
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 09:18
Nope.RGR wrote:See, here I figured it had been resolved some centuries ago.Vortex wrote:.For all I know about "proper" English, you could be correct, or you could be trying to convince me to insult the Queen in some quaintly British way
The unresolved rebellion in the American colonies is an insult to the Queen.
One day the US will abandon its prime mission of producing disgusting breakfast cereals in order to improve its cultural standing.
That will be when you return to the fold.
Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 02:25
Moving away from spelling issues, I loved the use of the term 'sustainable growth' in the article... it's like saying 'hot ice'