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Which variety of English should we use?

American
7 (35%)
British
8 (40%)
Makes little difference
5 (25%)

Total Members Voted: 20

Voting closed: December 25, 2005, 01:21:30 pm

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Offline kode

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #20 on: December 13, 2005, 11:43:16 am
pidgin?
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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #21 on: December 13, 2005, 12:09:55 pm
Quote from: ngtm1r on December 13, 2005, 09:20:27 am
Everything should have either a Southern or a Cockney accent.

I am sure you mean Cockney dialect? Because an accent is relatively hard to mirror in writing.
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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #22 on: December 13, 2005, 02:57:54 pm
Quote from: TopAce on December 13, 2005, 12:09:55 pm
I am sure you mean Cockney dialect? Because an accent is relatively hard to mirror in writing.

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Offline IPAndrews

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #23 on: January 03, 2006, 06:52:51 am
Be warned: This site's admins stole 100s of hours of my work. They will do it to you.
 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #24 on: January 04, 2006, 04:56:25 am
Quote from: ngtm1r on December 13, 2005, 09:20:27 am
Everything should have either a Southern or a Cockney accent.

May I be the first to say - Bugger that!

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #25 on: January 08, 2006, 06:50:40 pm
I don't particularly mind reading either form of English, so I don't really care...I actually use "re" and "er" in words almost interchangeably, because I read stuff written in British English. Nobody seems to care.
 

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #26 on: January 09, 2006, 07:03:04 am
If nobody cared, the poll would not be 7-8-5, but 0-0-20.
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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #27 on: January 10, 2006, 08:25:08 pm
I meant on the sites and other literary stuff I look at. The poll just reflects that about equal number of American english speakers have posted than British english speakers. Since this site isn't an overwhelming majority of either (as far as I know, I may very well be incorrect), then whoever writes the article should have say. And anybody that goes through and edits "er" to "re" everytime they see it should do something more productive.
 

Offline Pythia

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #28 on: January 16, 2006, 02:10:58 pm
can anyone point me to the launcher help forum? I'm having issues searching this site and my browsing hasn't pulled up anything.
 

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #29 on: January 16, 2006, 02:35:20 pm
If you're having trouble with the launcher you probably want the SCP forum.
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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #30 on: January 16, 2006, 02:35:23 pm
Heh Kaj beat me by three seconds.
 

Offline Pythia

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Re: Which variety of English should we use?
Reply #31 on: January 16, 2006, 06:19:54 pm
thanks, appreciate it.
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