Until you run into an old farmer who says "Koonichiya. Ee otenkisne?"こんにちは。いいおてんきですね。
It will always be "Konnichi wa. Ii otenki desu ne."
It will always sound the same and mean the same thing.

Tony
Until you run into an old farmer who says "Koonichiya. Ee otenkisne?"こんにちは。いいおてんきですね。
It will always be "Konnichi wa. Ii otenki desu ne."
It will always sound the same and mean the same thing.
なにゆっとるの?そりゃほうげんじゃねぇよー。おりゃらかんっぺきにっぽん語をはなしとるがやぁ!AJBryant wrote:
Until you run into an old farmer who says "Koonichiya. Ee otenkisne?"
Tony
"Ego has nothing to do with the capitalization of the pronoun I. Printing and handwriting have everything to do with it. In Middle English the first person was ich--with a lower-case i. When this was shortened to i, manuscript writers and printers found it often got lost or attached to a neighboring word. So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error. Of course, some writers refuse to be bound by this convention. Two of our favorites, the poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i" (Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins 303).
so, to make a correct hypothesis is ok but to make an incorrect hypothesis is egotistical... that's a sad, sad statement. no wonder the scientific method is going down the tubes in this country.mandolin wrote:
It's egotistical in itself to make an incorrect hypothesis, then act upon that hypothesis as if it were fact.
lemme fix that:"Ego has nothing to do with the capitalization of the pronoun I. Printing and handwriting have everything to do with it. In Middle English the first person was ich--with a lower-case i. When this was shortened to i, manuscript writers and printers found it often got lost or attached to a neighboring word. So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error. Of course, some writers refuse to be bound by this convention. Two of our favorites, the poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i" (Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins 303).
there's nothing wrong with breaking convention, if we didn't we would still be writing in all caps with no punctuation or we would make the first character of a paragraph huge. and with the fonts in use back then it's no wonder they misplaced a few "i"s."Ego has nothing to do with the capitalization of the pronoun I. Printing and handwriting have everything to do with it. In Middle English the first person was ich--with A lower-case i. When this was shortened to i, manuscript writers and printers found it often got lost or attached to A neighboring word. So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error. Of course, some writers refuse to be bound by this convention. Two of our favorites, the poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i" (Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins 303).
yes, i come from the days when the internet was academics, researchers and the military... email and news could take days to get from one place to another and 19.2Kbps was blazingly fast. before commercial providers, SPAM, trolls, MP3s, porn and all the other fun stuff. and it was uphill both ways in the snow.nprz wrote:
You've been online for 20 years? That predates the WWW!
I am SO glad I was only drinking milk when I saw that instead of coffee. That would have hurt more.なにゆっとるの?そりゃほうげんじゃねぇよー。おりゃらかんっぺきにっぽん語をはなしとるがやぁ!
Both are correct -- when in their proper milieu. For example, when I wrote for a British publisher, I used British English spelling. However, I'm pretty sure that the usage in the quote above of "seperate" and "your" aren't proper for either British or American English usage.As a British-English speaker there are many words, 'colour' and 'color' being an example i can think of immediately, that are spelled differently by native-ENGLISH speakers and American-speakers (2 seperate languages if your asking my opinion)
Which one is 'correct'?
EXACTLY!!!!In my opinion, on an international board like this, it is important to use English as properly as possible. Misspellings, improper grammar, etc. (and especially IRC speak) make it harder for those for whom English is not their primary language to understand what you are trying to say, and if they are the ones who have the answer to your question, it makes it harder for them to answer you.
I'm sorry but it's blatantly obvious that he can spell and that he did that typo because he was typing fast! I don't see your English being perfect either!'taked'.......not sure thats correct english..........