LL-L "Orthography" 2009.07.14 (01) [EN]

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From: Mike Morgan <mwmosaka at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2009.07.13 (02) [EN]

Kevin Caldwell wrote:

> the spelling “centre” is often used in commercial/retail developments to
> lend an air of prestige).

I also expect, in line with R/R's original comments, that the choice
"between theater" and "theater" is also "emotively" marked in such a
way.  Thus, I might write "I am going to the theatre" if I am going to
see Shakespeare, and "I am going to the theater" if I am going to see
Sylvester Stallone. ... AND of course this is NOT the same as if I (an
American by birth and language variety) pronounce the word "theatre"
in a "posh" "British" (sic) sort fo way, implyign a certain
snootiness...

PS And now, on my way to a new country, I am wondering if I will
TOTALLY confuse everyone with my anarchic (read: "poor", "confused")
spelling habits ... made all the "worse" (or better, depending on your
point of view) by 18 months working in India!

mike || U C > || мика  || माईक || マイク || ሚካኤል
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          (( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))
    to be Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Ethiopian Sign Language & Deaf Studies Program
      Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
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וואָס ×œ×¢× ×’×¢×¨ אַ ×‘×œ×™× ×“×¢×¨ לעבט, אַלץ מער זעט ער.
The longer a blind man lives, the more he sees.

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From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
 Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2009.07.13 (01) [EN]

 Microsoft's besetting sin.  I do some voluntary work at a Community
Centre's
computer lab/cybercaf, and every time Microsoft upgrades the XP on out
network, we get into trouble with the printers - because Microsoft can't
imagine that anyone could ever print anything on anything else besides
letter - and insists on changing our minds for us.  And we set our printers
to A4.

Microsoft's like a runaway cancer - every time you think you've dug it out,
it
infects yet another portion of the body, and before you know it, ...

Wesley Parish

On Tuesday 14 July 2009 04:12, Lowlands-L List wrote:
>
> From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
 > Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2009.07.12 (07) [EN]
>
> Every time I open Microsoft Outlook it defaults to US English so it tells
> me I spell centre, colour and travelling wrong until I re-set it.  I
> haven't tried "theatre".
>
> Paul
> Derby
> England

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