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MostlyBenign Why so serious? Since: Mar, 2010
Why so serious?
#251: Jul 11th 2011 at 5:18:40 PM

I am seriously wandering what the Finns are made so a average adult weight over 100Kg.

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

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#252: Jul 11th 2011 at 5:20:33 PM

Why does everyone spell it meters? That's a stick! I use metres. It's French goddamit.

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#253: Jul 11th 2011 at 5:34:49 PM

[up]Because in English you don't say metre? The word may come from French, but the language is still English.

Well, I use meter because I learn American English at school, that is why. I've noticed I wrote metre a few times in this thread, though, probably because I was talking with you.tongue

Lock Space Wizard from Germany Since: Sep, 2010
Space Wizard
#254: Jul 11th 2011 at 5:38:00 PM

Why does everyone spell it meters?
Well, I usually use American spelling versions and it's "Der Meter" in German, too.

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#255: Jul 11th 2011 at 5:50:48 PM

Yeah, but why? Brit-Eng says Metre and centre, whereas US-Eng uses Meter and center. Why, though?

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#256: Jul 11th 2011 at 6:00:59 PM

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).

IanExMachina The Paedofinder General from Gone with the Chickens Since: Jul, 2009
The Paedofinder General
#257: Jul 11th 2011 at 6:21:19 PM

I think Br Eng has intrusive Rs whereas amEng doesn't.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#258: Jul 11th 2011 at 8:02:00 PM

I've always wondered why centre isn't pronounced like sentry.

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snailbait bitchy queen from psych ward Since: Jul, 2010
bitchy queen
#259: Jul 11th 2011 at 8:42:36 PM

[up][up][up][up]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".

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#260: Jul 11th 2011 at 8:43:34 PM

Purity is for n00bs. And the French.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#261: Jul 11th 2011 at 9:19:12 PM

Fun 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

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Cojuanco Since: Oct, 2009
#262: Jul 11th 2011 at 9:28:33 PM

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.

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#263: Jul 12th 2011 at 12:43:53 AM

Why does everyone seem to think we're Socialist? Britain has a centre-right party in power, France too. If you think that's Socialism, you should've seen Europe after the war. It was more Capitalist Socialist, but my point remains.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#264: Jul 12th 2011 at 1:59:39 AM

Germany I like, though I wished they stopped beating themselves up over the war - for crying out loud, Nazism is a dead dog.
This. To me, it's their fault we can't shoot at Nazis in video games, because they fear that some people may be playing the Nazis instead. This is why we can't have nice things.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Kerrah Since: Jan, 2001
#265: Jul 12th 2011 at 2:35:44 AM

In my opinion, English is spelled so fundamentally un-phonetically that "-er vs -re" is a drop in the ocean and not worth bothering with.

AllanAssiduity Since: Dec, 1969
#266: Jul 12th 2011 at 6:42:27 AM

^ Kerrah shares my thoughts.

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#267: Jul 12th 2011 at 6:51:05 AM

Yeah. The old 'ghotti = fish'.

(gh from cough - coff)

(o from women - wimmin)

(tti from education - educashun)

edited 12th Jul '11 6:51:31 AM by Inhopelessguy

Lock Space Wizard from Germany Since: Sep, 2010
Space Wizard
#268: Jul 12th 2011 at 9:19:48 AM

To me, it's their fault we can't shoot at Nazis in video games
Eh? To my knowledge there are enough games out there to satisfy your Nazi bloodlust... Also how are "we" supposed influence anything in the videogame industry, besides censoring in our own country?

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.
storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#269: Jul 12th 2011 at 9:24:50 AM

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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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#270: Jul 12th 2011 at 10:01:42 AM

[up][up]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."
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#271: Dec 11th 2014 at 12:10:33 PM

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.

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Aespai Chapter 1 (Discontinued) from Berkshire Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Chapter 1 (Discontinued)
#272: Dec 11th 2014 at 12:49:53 PM

It's lack of negative stereotypes or negative stereotypical behavior bothers me.

edited 11th Dec '14 12:50:19 PM by Aespai

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Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#273: Dec 11th 2014 at 1:02:07 PM

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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

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#274: Dec 11th 2014 at 1:06:21 PM

[up][up] They will always have the Nazis, besides being money grubbing workaholics who have really weird porn.

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#275: Dec 11th 2014 at 1:18:56 PM

I have only known Britain and Ireland.

I think its pretty cool.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

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