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"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."
by kurtis_reed 3mo ago
"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own."
- mghackerlady 3mo ago? I just think british spelling looks better and am a whore for internationalism
- umeshunni 3mo agoInternalized self loathing is a thing
- bbg2401 3mo agoIt's a thing, yes. It's entirely irrelevant to the topic though.
- roryirvine 3mo agoOxford spelling, en-GB-oxendict, is a nice halfway house - it uses the same -ize spellings (where etymologically correct) as American English, but doesn't have the simplifications (eg. colour->color). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
- Symbiote 3mo agoIt's often preferred by academic journals, which might be why the original commenter sees it as "academic". It's also the official spelling used by the United Nations.