why is this not one way or the other?
addendum: wow, thanks everyone. I truly never knew it was a British vs. American spelling thing.
Gray is a color, while grey is a colour.
Gray is the color of aluminum, grey is the colour of aluminium
I like mixing American and British spells to piss assholes off who have nothing better to do then attack people for their spelling choices.
Its very fun.
Than*
It’s not British or American to just use the wildly-wrong word… That’s just misusing words.
Maybe they actually mean “then.” As in after they mix American and British spellings to piss people off with nothing better to do, they attack people for their spelling choice.
We all need hobbies.
So now we have a choice. Did Holytimes mean 1) piss off people who attack others (than), or 2) piss off people and attack people (then).
I think we should have a thn. This give both meaning at the same time.
They prefer mixing spelling to piss people off compared to attacking people. That’s why they attack people after pissing the people off.
¿Por que no los dos?
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It’s pretty clear. Not sure how you could have issues with it.
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Because I can read? Or…?
piss assholes off
piss off assholes
;-)
Split infinitive? To boldly go or to go boldly? If it’s intelligible I’d let it slide - second languages and all that.
Seems you succeeded, keep up the good work!
*arseholes
*essholas
grey - 🇬🇧 english (traditional)
gray - 🇺🇸 english (simplified)
This is correct, but for some reason in my head I think of gray as warm toned (like with yellow or brown undertones) and grey as cool toned (like with blue or purple undertones).
I have no idea why my brain has decided this is the way.
What?! It’s exactly the opposite, obviously!
You say this, and while I have never considered it in these terms before, it is obviously true to me.
gray - 🇺🇸 english (simplified)
grey - 🇬🇧 english (traditional)
gr*y - 🇦🇺 english (explicit)
I’m splitting hairs but I always read
grey - 🇨🇦 english (eh)
Fun fact: southern Americans speak English more traditionally than anyone else. The British have fucked up the pronunciation so hard at this point. Their spelling is typically more traditional though, yeah.
People say this a lot but it’s just not true
That doesn’t actually say that it isn’t the closest to a classical British accent. It only says it’s diverged from the modern one. Yeah, it isn’t the same as the classical British accent, but I believe it preserves more of the characteristics than other English accents have. They’ve all diverged, but some less than others.
IIRC, there’s an island that’s very isolated in the US who’s accent is as close as possible to a classic British accent, but it’s a population of maybe a few dozen people, if that even at this point.
Due to brain damage
No, it’s evolved unlike American that had to be simplified for the general population.
I think it’s a USA vs European English thing.
I prefer the ‘grey’ spelling though, even though ‘gray’ is most common in the states.
I know it’s an American vs other English speaking countries thing, but as an American I can honestly never remember which one we are. I always used to look it up, but now I just shoot from the hip and assume I’m right, which feels the most American way to approach it.
I think that’s what most Americans do. I don’t think I’ve thought about how to spell it in decades. I just spell it both ways depending on the day.
When I was in high school, a girl passed me a note:
Are you g
ray?Never forgot the spelling ;)
Yes
It’s græy
I know that this is “no stupid questions” but it boggles the mind that people post in forums when the answer is either yes/no, or a single sentence explanation available in a web search.
we should just not have Lemmy at all and only read news articles, wikipedia and talk to ourselves
I would argue that the purpose of Lemmy comments is dialogue, not for other users to be someone’s dictionary
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It’s pronounced gay ya twats
Gray in the US. Grey elsewhere.
Yes
for the color i use “a” always… but was taught either one was acceptable, unless it’s a name (proper noun).
Either way is correct.
Yes
Grea
Depends who you ask.
We know someone named Gray and a different person named Grey!
