English Please Not American
 

yes I may be being pedantic, but please can we have English as well as American we do not speak American in the UK for instance we spell Plough Plough not plow as you do and it annoys me that we are not able to speak our language when you have so many other languages available thank you others=wise good fun if alittle addcitive

Apparently you don't use punctuation in England either. I guess America invented that, too. Seriously, there are dozens of countries that play this game and the developers are from America, so it stands to reason they would spell things the American way.

Hi there :)
Do you mean the toolbars on the farms? Not sure they adjust for the multitude of 'different' languages and cultures such as 'American' or..ahem..'English'.
Here on the Forum however, please feel free to spell(or misspell) anyway you wish .. as long as it isn't profane, noone will mind or(for the most part) criticize.

I want Australian and New Zealand. If he can have English and Americans can have American I want my languages represented! :D

if the devs are american then why british spelling of nieghbours?

Navstart has a good point there - plus I thought a "plough" is the actual machinery used to "plow" a field? Therefore we spend our time plowing (seeing as we have no machinery) - not ploughing! If you really want to get pedantic then you really do need to check your capitals and spacing - re-reading your post would be good before actually posting! :rolleyes: :p

lol..maybe we could talk them into a compromise..swap neighbors for neighbours and plough for plow..

I thought 'plough' was the apparatis, and 'plow' was the function...? You plow a field with a plough...(?) But thats really picking fly poop out of pepper. Then we have all the 'to', and too's...your, you're's and there, their and they're's !! oh my....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough#cite_ref-0

When all else fails I speak the universal language of pirate!

We must all be very very bored..lol

My Webster says that plough(which is defined there as a verb and a noun btw) and neighbour are the British spellings..personally don't see any reason why we can't interchange them at will..
Swapping 'to' for 'too' and 'their' for 'there' (or 'they're') and 'you're' for 'your' is just plain wrong wherever you live.

I think it's Monday madness! :D

**Applauds loudly!** :cool:

Oh, I agree !! but still have to read it on here everyday !! I'm a buggaboo about correct spelling. Reading some of the posts (in general) on here just kills me. LOL !!

Oh, and I am, (very bored) that's the only time I get on here !!! LOL !!!

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, plough was spelt plow in English-English until the 17th century, when English took over plough (originally spelt plouch) from the Scots. So the US (North American?) spelling is the original English spelling. :D

I must admit I type so fast sometimes I type phonetically, not correctly. I do know "to" from "too" and "their" from "there", but often I hit send without checking to see if my typing fingers and brain are still wired together correctly. What I do find funny is when people in the MP spell "no" as "know." I can understand shortening words, but they go the extra mile and add in letters :p

hello everyone...need neighbor?add me trixiesamar@yahoo.com..tnx

Bravo!!!
How many UK people I chatted with, they all seem to have spelling problem.
Very strange to me, since english is my second language and their first...:eek:

I just wish there was a huge sign in the MP:

There is no X or Z in "please."

Can we say TROLL.

I knew you could.

I'm not a troll. I was being facetious. English in iteself does not make sense, therefore fighting over the "right" way to spell words either the English way or the American way is just silly.

do you think French Canadians will be wanting their own French forum as well?

all sounds the same to me! <giggle> as far as American goes, we say wash in Colorado "wash"...my friend from Ohio says "warsh" ... should we get to choose accents too? im sure the devs have tons of extra time to work on that

UK v US
 

UK and USA two countries divided by a common language. While working in the US a guy from Georgia (named after a British King, of course) said to me, "Gee, you speak good American!" Just about the closest I came too clocking a yank. Except for the one who reckoned he heard that Scotland was a nice city!

Let's split the difference and speak Canadian.

Eh?





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I just have to post that i have had a good laugh reading the above posts thanks guys very entertaining and really it's a game who cares how you spell it we all know what people mean if we are going to worry about the language better get rid of the U for you and 2 for to!

is this post still really alive? really?

Is this the ignore thread I have heard so much about??????

I don't understand you, since I don't speak English nor American. :(

G'day mate - I don't speak English or American either Bunbuns, I speak Australian (or strine to the initiated).

I just enjoy the diversity and couldn't care less how things are spelt. :D. Incidentally, I use the plough version of plow when it suits me. I am English and was taught to spell it the 'ough' way, back in school, many donkey's years ago and yes, we were also taught how to use punctuation, believe it or not. Maybe it's a lost art amongst young people nowadays, who can only spell in text language.
My biggest grumble is about beggers, spammers and those who use FT as a flirting/dating site, in the rudest way possible.

I don't think so Lara. I think that's the one which tells everyone they are going to be deleted if they don't pass on a particular chain message to 'at least' 15 people. Some people have nothing better to do with their time, I guess.

I'm Cajun. We need some Cajun spice here.

I agree with the first post my facebook is on UK English therefor the word should enter on my farmtown as plough.After all the language is English!
plow followed by plzzzz ( both an abortion of the language ) is a major irritant in this game.

Come on ! Surely there are more important things in this game that irritate you? If this was the only issue in FT I would be a VERY happy man!! We British have had to put up with having our language mangled by various nations (Yanks,Aussies, Kiwis etc.) for years!

This thread makes me LOL.

im LOL'ing with Tyler here...sigh...spell it how ya like...when people call me terri, if they spell it in their head or on paper teri or terri or terry or terrie....am i offended? I COULD CARE LESS...spell anything ya want your way! i wont judge ya...but why ya gotta have an issue with the way someone else spells it? we are playing a game that expands over many nations... yes? celebrate that! its awesome! i think im gonna start spellin plow, <digginupthedirtsoicanplantstuffinit>

I am a Kiwi but educated in an English school and yes the misuse of the language and spelling IS a major irritant I would rather crash every hour, and believe me I do, than see the English language mangled.Each to his own eh? I selected UK English in the hopes of correct English and get American.Go figure that annoys me.Perhaps because I teach English but I can also add faster than the geek with the calculator in the local shops and I also know how to use an apostrophe.Call me old fashioned! We were taught these things were important kind of like manners but the people on FT and obviously some on the forum are prepared to forgo all of these.
Sorry did I interrupt your graffitti time? perhaps you might want to make some cold calls during other people's dinner whilst you are at it.