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Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-20-2008, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Isn't there a setting somewhere you can change so it doesn't do that? I think a lot of programs have options for more than just American English.

Speaking of that, the frigging lamest thing I have ever heard was that for some books written by British authors, they actually release American editions for the US market with Americanized spelling and words. I know we sometimes look like it, but we're really not a nation of retarded people. Most of us do know what someone means when they say "torch" instead of "flashlight" and still know what "colour" means even with the U in it.

Try reading an Irvine Welsh novel , even I struggle with some of those.
Here's one of his easier passages if you've not read him

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Whair's it yis come fae then?

- Sorry, I can't really understand you . . . These foreign cunts've goat trouble wi the Queen's fuckin English, ken. Ye huv tae speak louder, slower, n likesay mair posh, fir the cunts tae understand ye.

- WHERE . . . DO . . . YOU . . . COME . . . FROM?

That dis the fuckin trick. These nosey cunts in front ay us look roond. Ah stares back at the cunts. Some fucker's oan a burst mooth before the end ay this fuckin journey, ah kin see that now.

- Ehm . . . we're from Toronto, Canada.

- Tirawnto. That wis the Lone Ranger's mate, wis it no? ah sais. The birds jist look it us. Some punters dinnae fuckin understand the Scottish sense ay humour.

- Where are you from? the other burd sais...

- Edinburgh, Rents goes, tryin tae sound aw fuckin posh, ken. Fuckin smarmy rid-heided cunt. He's aw ready tae steam in now, aw Joe-fuckin-Cool, once Franco breks the fuckin ice.