Re: ou

[Blizzard]

Need a favour

You British or something? :V
Meh, I'm just being an ass. Because of a naming inconsistency between color and colour in Ogre we've had a few problems so I hate it when I see the British way of writing it with ou instead of just o. D:

[The Niche]

Irish. I just prefer spelling that way :L. (Protip: Do not get PHM started on ou and o. You will never be able to look at either spelling again without shuddering)

[Ryex]

just want to say that phonetically ou doesn't make any sense. I think the euro branch of the English language is stupid for all it little misspellings that don't make phonetic sense. (btw if this conversations continues I vote it be split into academics)

[Futendra]

Then scroll down. @Ryex: Phonetically a lot of things don't make sense. However, a quick question. Pedobear or Paedobear?

Im not dumb, I see 3 swords and alot of lines that I cant seem to explain what it is...

[Ryex]

Then scroll down. @Ryex: Phonetically a lot of things don't make sense. However, a quick question. Pedobear or Paedobear?

Pedobear

[The Niche]

And I'm guessing you'd spell it that way because that's how it was originally spelt, despite the fact that that means foot fet!sh bear. Ou is the original spelling.

@Futendra: I'll upload the image in landscape.

[Power Hungry Midget]

just want to say that phonetically ou doesn't make any sense. I think the euro branch of the English language is stupid for all it little misspellings that don't make phonetic sense. (btw if this conversations continues I vote it be split into academics)

WHAT?!?!? If it's without the ou then it sounds retarded. It's a cull-ore not a co-laur. It's On-er not hone-or. DAMN YOU AMERICANS. Changing it to o is leading to the eventual downfall of the English language. It's now acceptable to put a z in -ise instead of the s, in Ireland. We're all doomed. Next we'll be talking like cavemen. The end is nigh. Spell your words properly while you can. I'm going to go cut myself while screaming at my Oxford dictionary.

[Ryex]

just want to say that phonetically ou doesn't make any sense. I think the euro branch of the English language is stupid for all it little misspellings that don't make phonetic sense. (btw if this conversations continues I vote it be split into academics)

WHAT?!?!? If it's without the ou then it sounds retarded. It's a cull-ore not a co-laur. It's On-er not hone-or. DAMN YOU AMERICANS. Changing it to o is leading to the eventual downfall of the English language. It's now acceptable to put a z in -ise instead of the s, in Ireland. We're all doomed. Next we'll be talking like cavemen. The end is nigh. Spell your words properly while you can. I'm going to go cut myself while screaming at my Oxford dictionary.

wrong:

cull-ore phonetically is color.
On-er phonetically is honer.

also language is by nature plastic if it dose not change with the people then language will just branch off and the old language will die.

(split into debate time?)

[Subsonic_Noise]

On-er phonetically is honer.

Except it's not spelled honer in either american or british english. Also, I prefer the british spelling, just for the way it looks.. let's say, it looks more natural to me, and I can write it more fluently. Also, I have a fetish for british and irish (especially irish) accents. :V
What you all should accept though, is that there are two spellings for those words, and that both are completely right. There's no sense in argueing over that.

[winkio]

I don't care how you spell it, even if you spell it wrong.  I just want to say that -ou- makes me think of 'gout' 'pouch' and 'couch', which all have that weird sound that for all i know is represented phonetically by 'aouw'

[Subsonic_Noise]

I don't care how you spell it, even if you spell it wrong.  I just want to say that -ou- makes me think of 'gout' 'pouch' and 'couch', which all have that weird sound that for all i know is represented phonetically by 'aouw'

Well, naturally. You're american.

[winkio]

I don't care how you spell it, even if you spell it wrong.  I just want to say that -ou- makes me think of 'gout' 'pouch' and 'couch', which all have that weird sound that for all i know is represented phonetically by 'aouw'

Well, naturally. You're american.

Hooray!

EDIT: Oh wait sorry were you trying to make a point?  It seemed like we were just stating the obvious...

[Subsonic_Noise]

I don't care how you spell it, even if you spell it wrong.  I just want to say that -ou- makes me think of 'gout' 'pouch' and 'couch', which all have that weird sound that for all i know is represented phonetically by 'aouw'

Well, naturally. You're american.

Hooray!

EDIT: Oh wait sorry were you trying to make a point?  It seemed like we were just stating the obvious...

I was stating the obvious. I was not arguing, I was just saying that naturally it would seem weird to you if you were raised with a different usage of "ou".

[winkio]

okay cool.  *splits topic*