What do you assign to Mordor? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

the guy who be short · 06-21-2005, 03:09 PM

Well, Celuien, the advantage is that we send Shakespeare straight to Mordor.

I would also like to pack off American spelling. Gandalf is Grey and always will be, I'm afraid.

mormegil · 06-21-2005, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

I would also like to pack off American spelling. Gandalf is Grey and always will be, I'm afraid.

I would rather be in favor of sending British spelling. I mean, seriously it's pronounced with a z sound so why not spell it realize instead of realise, and many others of the sort.

(although I would love it if I could say the word theater as you Brits do)

Orominuialwen · 06-21-2005, 05:13 PM

I second the sending of British spelling, with the exceptions of grey and aluminium. Those look/sound much better the British way, but all the rest of the time, it just means having to type extra letters.

**The Saucepan Man** · 06-21-2005, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mormegil

I would rather be in favor of sending British spelling. I mean, seriously it's pronounced with a z sound so why not spell it realize instead of realise, and many others of the sort.

That should be "favour".

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Originally Posted by mormegil

(although I would love it if I could say the word theater as you Brits do)

Surely you mean "theatre". You see, it's much easier to pronounce it correctly when you spell it correctly.

I would not presume to send either American spelling or American pronunciation to Mordor. But when they creep across the Atlantic and corrupt the very mother-tongue from which they were derived, then it's straight off to Minas Morgul with them as far as I'm concerned (or it would be if I wasn't already here myself)

I've lost count of the number of times that I have screamed at news presenters that it's controversy not controversy.

littlemanpoet · 06-21-2005, 07:02 PM

Ah but the language is going to change around that which the tongue finds most fluid. Always has, always will ... unless you're German, Mein Freund.

And the language we speak, like it or not (and I often enough do NOT) is going to end up more often than not rendered as controversy and nuc-uler (eeew!).

Orominuialwen · 06-21-2005, 07:51 PM

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nuc-uler (eeew!)

I send that mangling of the word nuclear to Mordor. I have yet to have a science teacher that pronounces it properly, which worries me. If they can't correctly pronounce words in their own profession, who's to say they know other things in it?

the guy who be short · 06-22-2005, 07:38 AM

TGWBS started this affair, and TGWBS should finish it...

I've found a wonderful solution. Let's just send English to Mordor.

Don't look at me like that. Can you honestly say you like the sound of English?

06-21-2005, 05:13 PM	#3
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	I second the sending of British spelling, with the exceptions of grey and aluminium. Those look/sound much better the British way, but all the rest of the time, it just means having to type extra letters. __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

06-21-2005, 03:09 PM	#1
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Well, Celuien, the advantage is that we send Shakespeare straight to Mordor. I would also like to pack off American spelling. Gandalf is Grey and always will be, I'm afraid.

06-21-2005, 07:02 PM	#5
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Ah but the language is going to change around that which the tongue finds most fluid. Always has, always will ... unless you're German, Mein Freund. And the language we speak, like it or not (and I often enough do NOT) is going to end up more often than not rendered as controversy and nuc-uler (eeew!).

06-22-2005, 07:38 AM	#7
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	TGWBS started this affair, and TGWBS should finish it... I've found a wonderful solution. Let's just send English to Mordor. Don't look at me like that. Can you honestly say you like the sound of English?