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Flavor vs. Flavour
An anonymous reader writes "A recent flamewar ensued on the Linux kernel mailing list, this time debating the proper spelling of 'flavor', or is it 'flavour'? Even Linux creator Linus Torvalds joined the fray with some rather humorous comments. For the most part, it sounds like spellings will stay as they are, but it makes for an entertaining read."
I suggest we all, in a show of universal brotherhood and cultural tolerance, join hands and announce to the world:
Linux: It gots much flavah!
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
If I'm not mistaken (and I'm drawing on Grade 2 or 3 here), "flavour" is the proper English spelling (UK and Canada and Australia), whereas "flavor" is the common spelling (US). There are lots of words like that, including colour (color), centre (center), and idiot (ijit).
Dammit, I meant to post that anonymously!
Next week will we be covering Linus's trip to the bathroom?
It's an article about Torvalds' offhand comments about a flame war about the spelling of a non-critical word in the kernel tree.
Man, if I'd only subscribed I could have seen this way early!
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Here's the real question: how many instances of the word are in the code/texts--and by extension, how many bytes will using the US spelling shave off the final size?
"A recent flamewar ensued on the Microsoft executive mailing list, this time debating the proper spelling of 'Linux'. Is it 'Linux,' 'GNU/Linux', 'cancer,' 'our biggest threat', or 'our second-biggest threat'?"
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In the fourth grade, I read War of the Worlds, in which theater was spelled "theatre". A few days after having finished it, I had to take a spelling test. One of the words was "theater", only I spelled it the other way, so it was marked wrong and I did not get a one hundred on the test. To this day, I hold that one test as a grudge against the British.
How about we settle on "it tastes good"...
Honestly, a debate like this cannot be resolved in a flamewar, a spelling bee on the other hand....
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
Flavor
eg. "These FREEDOM FRIES have a great flavor!"
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!
Its because of aluminium poisoning. Sorry, aluminum.
Don't go to a brothel if you want to buy broth
in america, canada, britain, etc etc we all speak mostly English there is no such language as american just lazy people who stole english and changed a few words because they were too dumb to learn to spell. use correct english for f*cks sake. or it will soon be: "Linucks kernal" and "pee aych pee" and "piethon" now give us some real news and change it back to correct english "flavour"
I don't see how CowboyNeal would be any better then flavor or flavour.
Hello, this is Leenoos Toorvahlds and I spell flavor, f-l-a-v-o-u-r.
This sort of disagreement can only be resolved with a fork.
signed,
BSD
Use Python
1.Flavore
2.Flevor
3.Flirst Porst
4.PROFIT!!!
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In the original post...
It changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete tree;
I've just comiled all affected files (that is, the config resulting from
make allyesconfig minus already broken stuff) succesfully on i386.
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The American spellings were implemented by Teddy Roosevelt when he was Secretary of Commerce, IIRC. The official reason was to save printing ink, but the real reason was to be "not British". It's not the original English spelling, but neither is what the Brits use either.
You have to love a creative country where an actor was President and the Terminator might become a Governor. At least they don't take politics as seriously as some have spelling.
...shouldn't that be humourous?
I fail to see how this relates to eyeball juices.
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Isn't this more or less how the different BSDs got started?
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YUou want to talk about spelling? Go ask Dennis Richie about the spelling of creat.........
Rich people are eccentric. Poor people are strange. Me, I'd be happy with odd.
No, it's called "English" as opposed to "American".
They speak English in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. and in America, they speak American. Also they pronounce the letter z wrong. it's Zed, not Zee. And they think Kraft dinner is Kraft mac & cheese (and food, for that matter), and the beer tastes like watered down piss. etc.
Differences in countries are stupid to debate about, because there's no right answer, just differences.
Ok, gotta' quote this:
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spellingby Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Or should that be horrour?
Scru th UK, les letrs = betr. Making a wrd ovrly long 4 no reson is ! a gud thing. Ill tek Armor, Flavor, Color any day ovr th our countrparts. Ad 2 th fact, th our versions sound funy wen u se them.
The only time I see it spelled "flavour" is in British recipe books. As in, "boil until all flavour and texture has vanished". :-)
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On that note
Isn't odd to be named "Catherine Zeta Jones"
How can you be named after a greek letter? What kind of a name is that?
What the hell is that "Zeta" short for? And if it is short for something, then why can't we call you "Catherine Zee Jones"?
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You think that's funny, but the second I discover the 5th fundamental force, I shall name it the nucular force!
I shall set physics back decades.
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Google says:
Eminem - 2,230,000
Mozart - 1,970,000
Burger - 1,670,000
Caviar - 575,000
Piss - 2,750,000
Chardonnay - 742,000
Your point?
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Then why don't you spell it as "about a yard"?
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Please be quiet or I will assault you and have sex with your posterior.
yeah, he was 27 different people all with similar names.
William Shaxper, William Shakespere and old Bill Shakspear all got together and said " wow guys, we've all got names that are a bit, you know, alike. we should form some kind of writing syndicate, we'll be famous!" (or should that be 'famos'?)
What follows is the patch to change all the occurences of the word flamewar with flamewaur. ;)
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I refuse to use
As apposed to "Deep fry until rubbery, oily consistency has been achieved. Place between two halves of a bun. Serve."?
In my first job straight out of college, it was my first time working in a group of programmers with source control and the like.
I was running into issues that variable names that I was deciding on for my code were occasionally conflicting with reserved words or other people's variables and such (obviously later fixed with a better coding standard that we all had to follow... as I recall, the group in India at the time still ignored it).
As a result, I wrote pretty much all of my code using swears.
My coworkers found it hilarious when I had to give demonstrations of it to groups, or show women in the office how it works.
eg: "fuckMeInTheGoatAss gets passed two variables, here you can see it is taking iShitEater and sCockSmoker - it will return a string, which will then get passed on to easySlut...."
After I left the company, I heard the fellow that took over my code found it both amusing and annoying.
Anytime I can annoy someone, then I consider my life just that much more fufilling.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
At Pete's Bar and Grill, you'll pay about 10 bucks for a beer, burger and fries. At Petro's Cocktail Grille, you'll pay about a hundred bucks for a tiny glass of white wine and a plate with a single sprig of parsely in some artistically swirled sauce combination.
There are also false "grilles" which still serve beer, burgers, and fries but are cleaner and with better decor to throw you off. You'll find a lot of guys in ties in them.
After almost every post on this thread, I find my self shaking my head, saying "who cares." Then I realized that I have read four pages of "stuff I don't care about." /. has killed my brain by making me smarter (if not more inquisitive).
As Eddy Izzard pointed out, one is phonically correct the other is cheating at scrabble.
"T..H..R..O"
"0?"
"Yes! and a U"
"U?"
"To prop up the O. And a G"
"G?"
"To give it a 'guh'"
"And an H in case the G falls off"
Having spent some formative years in England, I am allowed to use both. Especially if the extra letters lands me on a double word score.
Cheers!
is, of course, flavxx0rs. But you knew that.
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