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Not saying I don't believe you but why would a Brit leave out the 'u' in labour?
by jimjambw 4y ago
Not saying I don't believe you but why would a Brit leave out the 'u' in labour?
- epicureanideal 4y agoMaybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English. Also, what they say is what I’ve heard anecdotally several times and it makes sense when comparing even retail prices vs per drink prices.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoOne obvious theory is that 'tamade' never learned British English; the username appears to be Chinese. I doubt you're required to be a British national in order to invest in British pubs.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoTamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username (maybe Japanese phonetically, but that could easily be a coincidence), but I would let them speak for themselves.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username Context is pretty much everything; the only Chinese username I can more or less reel off from memory is '基妮真特么老油条... sabibibi', and I may be forgetting parts of it, but certainly there's plenty of swearing.
- School-Cotton 4y agoIt is Chinese: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=ta+ma+de https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary....
- thaumasiotes 4y agoseanmcdirmid surely knows that; I assumed he was saying it was unlikely to be used as a username. But I don't know why that would be.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoAh, ok then. To me it looks like “your mom’s” and then cutoff.
- brigandish 4y ago> Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English. I suggest that in the highly unlikely event this is true that we (the rest of the properly educated British) hunt this person down and dispose of them. After imposing a number of spelling tests first, of course.
- RupertEisenhart 4y agoAs an expat Brit who has been living with ESL speakers for over a decade and gotten sloppy on many of these things, some part of me lives in constant fear of exactly this eventuality. Ain't been caught yet tho
- brigandish 4y agoWe are watching…
- martinald 4y agoA bit OT but American English is becoming very popular over here in the UK. It's very common to see z instead of s in words for example. I wouldn't be surprised to see the u dropped at all.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoMost “American” spelling came from Britain originally.
- brigandish 4y ago"z" has been a valid alternative to "s" since I was a boy (and I can no longer claim to be a spring chicken). What I have noticed more of is children saying "zee" instead of "zed". I beat those children and they come to realise that they deserve it.
- wincy 4y agoMore people in the world say “zee” than “zed”. I’m surprised to hear a British person wants to sound like they’re French. (I’m just kidding as I hope you are about beating children)
- brigandish 4y agoThanks to India, more people in the world say "w" like "v" but I feel safe knowing that Indians have a better accent and better spelling than anyone in North America, and I would never joke about anything this serious. ;-)
- david_allison 4y ago'colour' isn't a valid CSS property, and 'serialisation' is inconsistent within a codebase written by Americans. Over time it's natural to drift towards en-US spellings when conversing online, even with a spellchecker.
- tamade 4y agoNever said I was a Brit :P In fact, a big chunk of UK pubs are owned by global PE funds.