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It's spelt "government". Spelling it "Gubment" doesn't suddenly turn everyone who's reading your comment against the notion of an elected democracy, it just mak
by oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
It's spelt "government". Spelling it "Gubment" doesn't suddenly turn everyone who's reading your comment against the notion of an elected democracy, it just makes you look stupid.
And the reason that it's much scarier if private companies abuse privacy than if the government does it, is that you yourself decide who the government is. You don't get that right wrt a private company.
- eric_the_read 13y agoIf we're getting cranky about spelling, it's "spelled". Spelt is an ancient variety of wheat. "Gubment" is pretty silly, though.
- anamexis 13y agoAs long as we're continuing to be cranky about spelling, "spelt" is a perfectly valid British spelling of the past participle of spell.
- eric_the_read 13y agoYeah, but you guys went and replaced the perfectly cromulent "aluminum" with "aluminium", so already I am suspicious.
- dreamfactory 13y agoaluminum sounds illiterate
- omarchowdhury 13y agoLaughing My Ass Off
- ihateaccount 13y agoSpelt is the correct spelling in British English (and most of the commonwealth). There is a vast world outside the US too. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=SPELT%2BSpelt%2Bspelt%2CSPELLED%2BSpelled%2Bspelled&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=7&share= http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=SPELT%2BSpelt%2...
- eric_the_read 13y agoI was partially taught by British teachers (I still can't spell 'neighbour' without a 'u' and my 'colour' waffles fairly evenly with and without it). I just can't keep track of every variation, sorry.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoI dunno, is an intentional phonetically accurate representation of dialect rather than being a mispelling, a bit like Yorkshire's t'internet.
- Torgo 13y agoThe government charters and governs companies so if companies are out of control who do you blame?
- gcb0 13y agonot really. everyone involved in the NSA scandal is not elected. from the people that authorizes budget, to the contractors in hawaii reading your info, to the agents in CIA/FBI building evidence against you, to the cops arresting you... not a single one is your representative. Your only representatives are all in the same dark as you are.