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Posted: 9/30/2002, 10:18 pm
by One-Eye
Okay, the U is like Canada itself. Not really necessary, but every once in awhile you notice it and think, "Hey, wait, is that
supposed to be there? Kinda pretty, kinda neat, kinda different, but... what's the point?" and then you shrug and forget about it again.
BUT I will say that "flavour" is much sexier than "flavor".
Posted: 9/30/2002, 10:21 pm
by christa lynn
Actually, the U does have a purpose. It's supposed to lengthen the vowel . . . . I think.
Posted: 9/30/2002, 10:32 pm
by One-Eye
Oh, and once my sister's fiance spent hours messing with the BNL song "Grade 9" and finally got it so they said "Ninth Grade". In defense of his this pathetic waste of time, he said, "But their way was wrong!"
I really don't understand him at all.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 4:13 am
by gravity
after the revolutionary war, america wanted to seperate themselves from britain. Webster, of webster's dictionary, dropped silent letters and u's from words that he felt didnt need them. To make a long story short, useage dictates correctness.....if enough people do it the wrong way, in grammar, it is eventually correct.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 4:31 am
by defying_gravity
Lynnever wrote:Actually, the U does have a purpose. It's supposed to lengthen the vowel . . . . I think.
Yeah. You don't say the end of "colour" like you say the word "or".
Posted: 10/1/2002, 11:01 am
by Corey
Aerindipity wrote:What about "grade 4" or "fourth grade"???
One is clearly right; the other clearly wrong.
I ran in a race and came in place 2.
I drive a car cherry red.
I have an appointment at PM 4.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 12:58 pm
by superrgirll
gravity wrote:after the revolutionary war, america wanted to seperate themselves from britain. Webster, of webster's dictionary, dropped silent letters and u's from words that he felt didnt need them. To make a long story short, useage dictates correctness.....if enough people do it the wrong way, in grammar, it is eventually correct.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 1:26 pm
by stlloki
kuler
Posted: 10/1/2002, 1:28 pm
by joe_canadian
Posted: 10/1/2002, 2:40 pm
by Axtech
Posted: 10/1/2002, 2:44 pm
by luckyJQ9
NOOO!!! Please lets not all get involved in a Canada war..those are the worst....
p.s.: i love canada..i owe it so much.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 2:44 pm
by superboots
aww, come on guys, you have to admit...it's funny.
I saw a documentary on PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and Vietnam War vets, and decided that I'm pretty sure that I want to live in Canada, once I finish my schooling. That kinda was "the straw that broke the camel's back" (yeah, I know, corny idiom) The stuff that they made these soldiers do, I don't even want to talk about it.
Disturbing, to say the least.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 2:58 pm
by luckyJQ9
we learned about the canadian government today...i kinda like...i want to move to canada cause it's impossible to seriously hate canada..unless you're a moron who doesn't matter. i love canada..they have so much to offer and don't get enough credit.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 3:30 pm
by Xavier870
Posted: 10/1/2002, 3:32 pm
by Blister
Damnit. That U is British, not Canadian. I lay claims on that U!
ColoUr
FavoUrite
Alu-min-ee-um
YEAR 4
Trainers and
Trousers.
Haah. :wink:
Posted: 10/1/2002, 3:49 pm
by superboots
I've gotten in heated discussions about the American English language with one of my friends. I think that people should speak proper english and be gramatically correct, and he thinks that language has evolved and it's perfectly ok to say things like, "he don't know nothing," "I did that good" "What are them things," etc.
His main argument: if everybody still spoke "proper English," we'd be saying things like "thee, thou, hither, etc"
Does anybody have any thoughts on this? You'll never change my mind, but I like to know what the young people of this generation think about this issue.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 3:53 pm
by One-Eye
Posted: 10/1/2002, 4:45 pm
by Corey
luckyJQ9 wrote:we learned about the canadian government today...i kinda like...i want to move to canada cause it's impossible to seriously hate canada..unless you're a moron who doesn't matter. i love canada..they have so much to offer and don't get enough credit.
You're kidding right?
Posted: 10/1/2002, 4:52 pm
by lora
Our pretty canadian government makes me laugh. Hard.
Posted: 10/1/2002, 5:11 pm
by the android
*clumsyrific* wrote:His main argument: if everybody still spoke "proper English," we'd be saying things like "thee, thou, hither, etc"
Does anybody have any thoughts on this? You'll never change my mind, but I like to know what the young people of this generation think about this issue.
That's not "proper english". That's Old English.
Calm down... Canada's great; I'd live there if I could.