Proper english

[jmur5074]

By the way jmur, English should be capitalized in your title.

Ehh....you got me. Nice eye!

[HudsonHawk]

I was always taught to put "In color" on evidence tags to prevent someone from claiming they were owed a solid gold or solid silver item because the evidence tag said "gold item a". I don't particularly like the phrase "in color" so I always wrote to the effect of "gold colored"

The way we write it here is generally "yellow metal" or "white metal" chain/ring/etc.

I knew it wouldn't be long before one of defeated would chime in! We won, so we'll spell COLOR any damn way we please!

Don't forget the WHISKEY!

[Jks9199]

I love it. You colonials discussing English, and you still can't spell colour properly.

Wrong. We spell so many things so much more efficiently. You snobby Brits just leave extra useless letters in words... and only pronounce them sometimes, like Alumin-ee-um (which is properly spelled without the stuck-up letter i, thusly: aluminum.)

[keith720]

I was just thinking, because we DID win the war, shouldn't the phrase be "Proper American," rather than "Proper English?"

[Trojan 42]

I knew it wouldn't be long before one of defeated would chime in! We won, so we'll spell COLOR any damn way we please!

Sorry Keith, that win doesn't count. It should have been the war of 1774, but you turned up 2 years late, as usual, and we'd all gone home.








( And nice signature, too. )

[keith720]

Sorry Keith, that win doesn't count. It should have been the war of 1774, but you turned up 2 years late, as usual, and we'd all gone home.





( And nice signature, too. )

Whether you quit, ran home, or surrendered, WE WON!



The quote was from a radio address that Churchill made to the people of France after Dunkirk, I believe.

[McCrackhd]

It doesn't so much bother me as it does you to say shortly later, but it does sound goofy. As for the "in color", I try to say blue toyota corolla, but sometimes I forget to put the color in front like that. Therefore, I will sometimes say a toyota corolla, blue in color, just so I don't have to make a white out correction. Our supervisors don't care as long as you get the info in.

[Motorwaycop]

Like us as a people our language is a mixture of languages and cultures, alot of it, god forbid comes from french, oh the pain!!

Look out Keith I still have the power of fire!

[gopherpuckfan]

It doesn't so much bother me as it does you to say shortly later, but it does sound goofy. As for the "in color", I try to say blue toyota corolla, but sometimes I forget to put the color in front like that. Therefore, I will sometimes say a toyota corolla, blue in color, just so I don't have to make a white out correction.

WTF is white out?

Computers don't require it