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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-25 10:03:00
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Entry tags:community: techsupport, defensiveness ahoy, dictionaries are for losers, get your ampersands here, grammar and spelling, language

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
A rocket scientist over in [info]techsupport seems to think that Americans invented the English language and that people in the UK and Australia don't speak English.

Good times.
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[info]hallidae
2008-11-25 04:23 pm UTC (link)
These wanks never fail to make me want to hide my head in shame, and I'm never sure whether it's the ethnocentric dumbassery on the OP's part, or the fact that it's inevitable that there will be a thread mocking the Southern accent, a branch of which I've got.

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[info]sevendeadlyfun
2008-11-25 04:28 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure who's wankier here: the non-American commenters for stereotyping Americans as uneducated rednecks or the American commenters for the same.

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[info]gynocrat
2008-11-25 04:30 pm UTC (link)
Well, "C" is for cookie, and that's fucking good enough for me.

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[info]mary_mac
2008-11-25 04:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm stuck at the 'It's all 4chan to me now anyways'.
Dude, they're being positively gentle. 4chan'd have ripped you apart by now.

(It took me until somebody turned on subtitles on Sesame Street to figure out what the hell 'zee' meant. I was a confused child.)

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[info]da_angel729
2008-11-25 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I'm doing a study abroad year in the UK this year (I'm American) and had no idea "Z" was "Zed" in British English until one of my flatmates said it in conversation. But my flatmates and I just laugh about the differences in pronunciation and get over it.

I don't understand people who are so stupid about something so ridiculous! It's just words, people.

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[info]alya1989262
2008-11-25 04:48 pm UTC (link)
It's just the law of probability that if you see something happen 99% of the time, it's going to continue to happen if you ignore it or not. The more something happens, the more likely it's going to continue happening.

Wait, what?

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[info]kefanii
2008-11-25 05:04 pm UTC (link)
Excellent! It's definitely wrong to complain about Zee != Zed and imply that people who aren't Americans are stupid. But when we bring up Southern accents it's totally cool to mock them for talking like their parents and teachers taught them. There's definitely a difference between them! I'm not sure what, but there is!

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(no subject) - [info]llama_treats, 2008-11-25 05:11 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2008-11-26 02:19 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]llama_treats, 2008-11-25 07:30 pm UTC
I can haz proper speeling, plz? - [info]zyna_kat, 2008-11-25 07:49 pm UTC
Re: I can haz proper speeling, plz? - [info]llama_treats, 2008-11-25 07:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ninwhore, 2008-11-25 08:25 pm UTC
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... - [info]mochibuni, 2008-11-27 03:01 am UTC
... - [info]panthea, 2008-11-27 02:24 pm UTC
Re: I can haz proper speeling, plz? - [info]plazmah, 2008-11-25 09:18 pm UTC
Re: I can haz proper speeling, plz? - [info]hallidae, 2008-11-25 10:04 pm UTC
... - [info]plazmah, 2008-11-25 10:07 pm UTC
... - [info]hallidae, 2008-11-25 10:41 pm UTC
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[info]misachan
2008-11-25 05:13 pm UTC (link)
Man, I love using the Alpha-Bravo-Charlie system to spell things out. It makes me feel like I'm talking to Sgt. Rock.

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[info]lady7jane
2008-11-25 05:24 pm UTC (link)
Why are they blaming the Brits and Australians? It's all the goddamn New Zedlanders' fault.

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(no subject) - [info]msmanna, 2008-11-25 05:42 pm UTC
*opens one eye* - [info]octavia, 2008-11-25 05:55 pm UTC
Re: *opens one eye* - [info]tamchronin, 2008-11-25 06:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]manny_fish, 2008-11-26 02:02 am UTC

[info]the__ivorytower
2008-11-25 05:37 pm UTC (link)
"We're going to Zee Gee."

"It's Zed Gee*, damnit!"

This conversation happened a lot when we went to instances. Most of the time I use Zed (Did anyone else read National Geographic for Kids, with the article called "From Eh? to Zed"? That was a fun one), but in conjunction with WoW, I tend to use Zee.

And I'm Canadian. I am from Canadia


*We're referring to Zul'Gurub, but there are a couple of other similarly-named instances, like Zul'Aman and Zul'Farrak. They're all troll-holes to me.

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(no subject) - [info]wolfsamurai, 2008-11-25 06:42 pm UTC
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[info]galletas
2008-11-25 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Soooo, am I the only one that learned today that Z can be pronounced two ways? ... Bueller?

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(no subject) - [info]zing_och, 2008-11-25 06:45 pm UTC
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[info]aeka
2008-11-25 07:50 pm UTC (link)
[info]boogara : "'Non-English-Speaking-English-Country' is a country where American English is not spoken (well). Britain for me isn't in this field 'cause all the times I've talked to a Brit, they didn't speak much/any British-English."

[info]wibbble: "I think you've got this backwards. America is the 'non-English-speaking-English-country' (if that phrase can have any meaning at all).

Or to put it another way: English, you're doing it wrong. "

[info]wibbble does have a point. English didn't come from America or it would have been called 'American'. Therefore British English is technically correct. Noah Webster simply tweaked it in the mid 18th Century as part of reforming the American education system from the British system.

I wonder if [info]boogara even knows who Noah Webster is. S/He would probably be a little less ignorant if s/he did.

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[info]keri
2008-11-25 08:20 pm UTC (link)
[info]chintimin is asking for trouble: Yes. It is a letter. SO. If you say "Z as in Zed", you're not making any goddamn sense. ZEBRA. ZEBRA. ZEBRA. nuff said.

BUT IS IT ZEE-BRA or ZEB-RA??? We need to ask [info]boogara fast!


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(no subject) - [info]wankaholic, 2008-11-26 01:33 am UTC
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[info]tehrin
2008-11-25 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Alphabet wank. Seriously.

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2008-11-25 11:54 pm UTC

[info]queencallipygos
2008-11-25 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Yeesh -- my friend from Ireland would totally confuse people in there. She pronounces the name of the letter "A" as "ah" rather than as "ay", the way most other people do (for instance, she'd spell "zebra" by saying "zed, ee, bee, arr, ah").

....Her name has an "a" in it, and she's spelled it for friends of mine, but they somehow managed to not be thrown by a difference in pronunciation. Some people just really like making fusses, I suppose.

Which is why wank is evergreen. (toasts)

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(no subject) - [info]caoilte, 2008-11-26 04:53 am UTC
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[info]bemysty
2008-11-25 10:07 pm UTC (link)
Am I the only person in the room who... doesn't really care how you pronounce words and/or the alphabet and/or build your sentences as long as I can pick out what the hell you're saying (and it's not with a German accent. Szänk juh for träwelling wis Deutsche Bahn, indeed...)?

It might be because I learned English on the internet and my (rather international) group of friends has accents all over the place, but honestly...

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(no subject) - [info]weaselistic, 2008-11-25 10:13 pm UTC
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iwanttobeasleep
2008-11-25 10:07 pm UTC (link)
/love!

Although you'd think a linguistics student would be able to find the shift key.

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[info]mcity
2008-11-25 10:45 pm UTC (link)
This may not be the first time they've pulled something like this. Lookit the summary.

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[info]rotten_fish
2008-11-25 11:16 pm UTC (link)


Who cares about the wank - look at that icon! Ngh.

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2008-11-25 11:55 pm UTC
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[info]underwaterowl
2008-11-25 11:39 pm UTC (link)
Wait, he's arguing that it must be zee because you say zipper not zedper?

The is he double-u-aiting for an answer?

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(no subject) - [info]mercorir, 2008-11-26 09:48 am UTC

[info]manny_fish
2008-11-26 01:58 am UTC (link)
Yeah, us Aussies don't speak English. We just litter normal words with curse words when talking to Yanks.

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(no subject) - [info]sevendeadlyfun, 2008-11-26 03:40 am UTC
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[info]cazrolime
2008-11-26 02:55 am UTC (link)
I'm English, but I was brought up watching Sesame Street, and it took me the longest time to stop saying "zee". Still do sometimes. >_>

I don't know why it is so hard for this guy to understand that there is more than one way of pronouncing pretty much any given word, and that they're all equally valid. By all means, be annoyed that you can't understand someone, but don't accuse them of not being able to speak. O_o What.

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[info]dejana
2008-11-26 03:02 am UTC (link)
I love how he edited his post to say "okay, I'm wrong, let's stop," but continues to fight on in the comments.

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(no subject) - [info]dejana, 2008-11-26 03:07 am UTC
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[info]isntitironic
2008-11-26 06:36 am UTC (link)
All the Men In Black have letters for names.

Rip Torne pronounced his character's name as 'Zed'.

Therefore, zed is a letter.

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[info]nifflet
2008-11-26 09:38 am UTC (link)
Anyone else remember that song from, I don't know, a decade ago?

"Vocabulary runs through my head/
the alphabet runs right from A to Zed"?

Oh, how I laughed at that as a young American. But I didn't, y'know, insist that the band was STUPID and WRONG and OBVIOUSLY NOT IN TOUCH WITH ENGLISH.

Also, since this is apparently hitting all my buttons...I'm Southern and y'all is pretty much the best word ever. I'm in England right now and I tried to get my British friends to say it; it's like I asked him to speak Russian. It was great.

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(no subject) - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2008-11-26 10:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2008-11-28 05:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ladyvyola, 2008-12-01 05:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nifflet, 2008-12-01 05:35 pm UTC
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