quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Y'know, that's weird. The US is the country that replaces the letter "s" with "z" in works. Prioratize - prioratise, recognize - recognise, and, er, others that I can never remember.
But this example goes the other way around. And is that HMS Enterprize a real ship?
Actually... I'm in the US and I think the correct spelling of both is z and not s... but I have seen recogni's'e before.
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That's right. It's pretty much down to personal preference. I tend to type "s", but I'll sometimes write "z", just to be crazy mad crazy.
But the US spelling isn't "Exercize" either, is it?
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Exercise... I misread and thought they were talking about it any another form... got my English English mixed with the American English--- does it matter anyway? For the most part Americans read American written works and the Brits read British written works, at least the daily stuff like magazines and newspapers, right? I think that's the only area where this becomes important. When you get into net-related works, while American English seems to be a commerce standard... I doubt many people read with enough defination to notice the difference. When I'm reading, I go so fast I usually skip over misspellings or different spellings quite often because I'm not looking at the exact sentence just it's meaning and context [which usually includes dropping the adverbs and adjectives]. Sometimes I have to read it over because I didn't get the meaning, but usually it's easy enough to skim... all I see is recog and I know it's recog -nize -nise -nition or something along those lines the first two are the same and the last is brought out in context.
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The rating system actually refers to the number of guns a ship carries; Victory is a first rate (104 guns), Bellerophon was a third rate (74 guns) etc.
Although the irony is fantastic.
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hmmm... 40 cannon balls are comming at u! What do u do?
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: The first starship with a starfleet cloaking device: The USS Spanish Inquisition
Time: Now Place: Fleet Wargame Operations Area
Aide: "Commodore, all Orange force ships are formed up and report all ready."
Commodore: "Very well. Inform the squadron to..." [interrupted by sensor alert warning]
Ops Officer: "Sir, a new ship has just entered sensor range! It reads as NCC-47892, and she's definitely coming this way."
C: [thumbing thru his OPPLAN] "Huh? What that...that doesn't sound right...all the ships are here. [looking up at his command team] Did anyone expect the Spanish Inquisition ?"
[snickering heard]
C: "What! What was that! How unprofessional! I will not tolerate that kind of behavior on this ship, on this deck, on my team! I expect everyone to perform to the highest standards, time after time, just like the Roman namesake of this command ship, Biggus Dickus !"
quote:Originally posted by Ultra Magnus: Defend myself with the unused 'Y' and 'O' keys.
I don't think Magnus likes me very much...
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