Proper english

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Originally Posted by Five-0

By the way jmur, English should be capitalized in your title.

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Ehh....you got me. Nice eye!

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Originally Posted by 213th

I was always taught to put "In color" on evidence tags to prevent someone from claiming they were owed a solid gold or solid silver item because the evidence tag said "gold item a". I don't particularly like the phrase "in color" so I always wrote to the effect of "gold colored"

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The way we write it here is generally "yellow metal" or "white metal" chain/ring/etc.

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Originally Posted by keith720

I knew it wouldn't be long before one of defeated would chime in! We won, so we'll spell COLOR any damn way we please!:boink:

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Don't forget the WHISKEY! :garbage:

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Originally Posted by Trojan 42

I love it. You colonials discussing English, and you still can't spell colour properly. ;)

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Wrong. We spell so many things so much more efficiently. You snobby Brits just leave extra useless letters in words... and only pronounce them sometimes, like Alumin-ee-um (which is properly spelled without the stuck-up letter i, thusly: aluminum.)

I was just thinking, because we DID win the war, shouldn't the phrase be "Proper American," rather than "Proper English?":confused:

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Originally Posted by keith720

I knew it wouldn't be long before one of defeated would chime in! We won, so we'll spell COLOR any damn way we please!:boink:

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Sorry Keith, that win doesn't count. It should have been the war of 1774, but you turned up 2 years late, as usual, and we'd all gone home. :p








( And nice signature, too. ;))

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Originally Posted by Trojan 42

Sorry Keith, that win doesn't count. It should have been the war of 1774, but you turned up 2 years late, as usual, and we'd all gone home. :p





( And nice signature, too. ;))

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Whether you quit, ran home, or surrendered, WE WON!



The quote was from a radio address that Churchill made to the people of France after Dunkirk, I believe.

It doesn't so much bother me as it does you to say shortly later, but it does sound goofy. As for the "in color", I try to say blue toyota corolla, but sometimes I forget to put the color in front like that. Therefore, I will sometimes say a toyota corolla, blue in color, just so I don't have to make a white out correction. Our supervisors don't care as long as you get the info in.

Like us as a people our language is a mixture of languages and cultures, alot of it, god forbid comes from french, oh the pain!!

Look out Keith I still have the power of fire!

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Originally Posted by McCrackhd

It doesn't so much bother me as it does you to say shortly later, but it does sound goofy. As for the "in color", I try to say blue toyota corolla, but sometimes I forget to put the color in front like that. Therefore, I will sometimes say a toyota corolla, blue in color, just so I don't have to make a white out correction.

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WTF is white out? :p

Computers don't require it ;)