Comments on: Top 5 annoying Americanisms

By: kym

kym — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:17:05 +0000

“And don’t even get me started on “zed” and “zee” or the replacement of S with said letter in words like “organise””

That is the worst one in my opinion, it is a ZEBRA not a ZEEBRA!

Also, is it just me that has problems with Microsoft Word being determined to make me American?
It seems every time I open a new document it resets to English (US), and puts those stupid, annoying red lines under every word that it wants to replace the S with a ZED!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:08:22 +0000

Actually, thinking about it, Rick is right there. The reverse British date format would be the best option. Way to go, Rick!

By: Rick Nunn

Rick Nunn — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:58:28 +0000

@Andy, I have to disagree, both date formats suck for files, I have a 250gb image library and every folder in it starts with a reverse british date, eg 2009 07 28, I would have such a messy file system if it wasn’t for that. Looking at a date from a logical stand point there are only two ways IMO a date could be displayed and make sense – DD MM YYYY or YYYY MM DD. Hierarchy for the win!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:55:41 +0000

@Andy – You know I was waiting for your comments on this. You make a good point about the date system, it’s certainly one to think about. About the grocery bags; Truer words have never been spoken.

@Stu – It certainly does. I’m all for making things sound less French. Whenever I hear people call a cake a gateau I want to choke them with it.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:38:49 +0000

Infernal Affairs is a really good film. I saw it before I got round to The Departed, and I’m glad I did. Infernal Affairs is pretty much the exact same film as the first, and The Departed is pretty much exactly the same as them both. I feel I know the story pretty well by now.

Just my 2 cents (or pence if you prefer) but I prefer check to cheque because it’s shorter to type, easier to spell, and you can say it how it looks. It’s also got the advantage of being a bit less French.

By: Andy Rudkin

Andy Rudkin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:37:54 +0000

I have to say that the American date system is something that works so much better with a computer based file system. If I title my quotes / invoices with the UK standard, all my files are listed with the days in the order.. i.e. all the firsts on the months, all the sevenths of the months etc. However if I go the US route and go month-day-year, then everything is honky dorey and all my files appear in the right order.

Not that I want to big up the yanks too much… at the end of the day this is still a country that still hasn’t gotten around to adding handles to their grocery bags! Keep up!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:06:12 +0000

@Rick owned indeed /bow

However if I was a noob Inline style within HTML would allow the use of color

Indeed I also are rather pedantic, I just wouldnt assume a fair few people would know what HTML is nevermind CSS, How ignorant of me, I shall now proceed to deport *my sorry ass* back to the land of the free, or err America.

By: Ste

Ste — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:57:19 +0000

Ahh the stereotyping of the British by Americans never ceases to make me LOL.

I encountered quite a few Americans on my honeymoon in the Dominican Republic recently.

Upon striking up a conversation with a few of them, I was asked by a stereo typical American Jock where I lived. My response was Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

I got the reply “uhh yeah is that like near Nottinghamshire Castle?”. Yeah mate I live 3 doors down from the Queen.

/faceplam

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:54:32 +0000

@Rick – *hangs head in shame* I had no idea The Departed was a remake of anything. I’ve never seen Infernal Affairs (but it will be in the next 5 movies I watch). Well, that being the case I think you’ve found a solution to the Hollywood remake shit-machine. Just let Martin Scorsese make direct all the remakes.

By: Rick Nunn

Rick Nunn — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:44:52 +0000

I like the list, and agree with a lot of it, but I have two points to make, which are more about the comments than the actual article but:

@Dan you spoke about remakes and then mentioned The Departed, now I love the original Infernal Affairs but the American remake kicks is ass! IMO

@Adam, before I say this please understand that I am the most pedantic man alive, you should not be using COLOR in HTML, its a styling property and should be included in a style sheet (CSS).