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Sandilou:
Thank you, Ancient Sim, I'll put in my order for British Barbara now. ;D
SJActress:
Anyway, to find out the TRUTH about YOOS and what makes them tick, go here: http://www.wittywoman.com/yoos.html. I promise you will learn everything there is to know (and more). Even I did and I wrote it.
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Very funny!
However, it may just be in the acting field, but I have NEVER seen the word "dialogue" spelled "dialog". I mean, it's monologue and dialogue! However, analog, I totally buy that. We do spell it that way!
Love it! Thanks for the laugh :D and the headache :-[ ;)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: sandilou on 2005 July 31, 22:35:54
'Sod off?' Do people in the US use that expression? I thought it was exclusively British!
It is?
Quote from: SJActress on 2005 August 01, 03:15:53
"Bug off"? That's just a shortening of "bugger off"
You mean Americans don't say "bugger off" anymore, either?
No wonder non-British people will randomly get this peculiar idea that I'm British. I guess these things have been lost from mainstream American usage, but I'm old and I ahve a long beard, and I live under a rock, so nobody bothers to tell me these things. That, or I probably ignored them.
Kitiara:
SjActress - I Have actually seen the word dialog, funny how it was mostly when I was in Drama in high school. Weird that.
veilchen:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 August 01, 03:35:40
Well of course we do, WE INVENTED IT!!! And please don't complain about our YOOS because seeing word without YOOS brings on my allergy. As for s instead of z, well we used to use zeds but they are considered archaic now (i.e., old-fashioned as hell). I think we stopped using them around the time of Henry VIII (well, maybe not that long ago, but it was centuries). Anyway, to find out the TRUTH about YOOS and what makes them tick, go here: http://www.wittywoman.com/yoos.html. I promise you will learn everything there is to know (and more). Even I did and I wrote it.
Ancient, that one of the funniest pieces I've ever read. My daughter and I were cracking up reading it. Both of us learned english the british way, and it was hard for us to switch from the yoos and zeds to the american way. We still slip up now and then, but MS-Word keeps reminding us that we are not doing it the american way. Every time I use words, such as color instead of colour, it seems to me that there is something missing :D
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