Again, because it is how it is pronounced. Well, at last it is how I learn it is pronounced. Not that English pronunciation make sense most of time.
You complain is like complaining about the French pronouncing everything differently from all other romance languages, despite being a romance language itself and using the same letters(when compared to Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, French vowels are weird).
I think Br Eng has intrusive Rs whereas amEng doesn't.
By the powers invested in me by tabloid-reading imbeciles, I pronounce you guilty of paedophilia!![]()
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This was a result of Noah Webster wanting to "Americanize" English by simplifying it. Basically, it stemmed from the fact that we wanted further distance ourselves from British culture. Hence, there were spelling reforms. It is significant to note that different language reforms were proposed beforehand (even by Benjamin Franklin), so it wasn't exactly a new idea.
Many Americans think "center" is more logical. To many British individuals, it looks wrong and improper. I can understand both points.
Personally, I believe both spellings are valid. Language is constantly changing and there needs to be less concerns about its "purity".
"Without a fairy, you're not even a real man!" ~ Mido from Ocarina of TimeFun fact, we had a physics lab professor who was ESL, so we got him to pronounce it "thermo-meter" or thermo(dynamics)+meter instead of thur+mom+ehter.
edited 11th Jul '11 9:19:29 PM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.How I see Europe: First-world people like the United States, but meeting them, I'm often struck how secularism seems to be a part of the culture to the extent not seen in, well, the rest of the world. Britain is nice, because my cousin lives there, though they seem too much of a nanny-state for my liking. France I have mixed messages about. The women I've met were all nice, polite and respectful of American culture. The men, though, less so (of course, all the men seemed to be Parisians, which might explain a lot). Generally quite a bit of values dissonance. Germany I like, though I wished they stopped beating themselves up over the war - for crying out loud, Nazism is a dead dog.
It's often too much work to make separate versions, so some companies will just produce a single censored version.
Though there are certainly a lot of non censored games too. Nazi Zombies for instance.
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Thinks like Return To Castle Wolfenstein had the No Swastikas rule applied worldwide, didn't they?
edited 12th Jul '11 10:01:49 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."I actually kinda admire the Germans, it takes a special kid of country to admit upfront they did something wrong and try to make it right, as so posed to denying anything ever happened *cough Turkey,or turning towards the theme park of history *cough the US, or just plain deluding themselves *cough Japan.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.![]()
Germany's relationship with its past is more complex than that
, and the modern trope of the guilty German is Newer Than They Think.
EDIT: Nevertheless, the results of Germany's Vergangenheitsbewältigung are indeed commendable.
edited 11th Dec '14 1:03:28 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei

It's not. The average (male) Finn is about 1,8 meters tall and weighs around 80 kilos.