On 6/12/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
On 12 Jun 2006 at 23:48, "Death Phoenix"
<originaldeathphoenix(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I tend to call it Commonwealth English, except
when something gets me
really annoyed, and then I'm liable to call it Proper Bloody English.
PBE's a good one.
Pompous Bullshit English?
It (British/Commonwealth English) tends, in my (probably biased)
experience, to be used by people trying to put on airs and sound
pretentiously superior, like real estate developers naming a
development "Harbour Centre" when it's nowhere near a harbo(u)r nor
particularly close to the center/re of anything important, or fashion
magazines ("Glamour") that desperately want to show how elegant they
believe themselves to be, or snooty academics who would rather be
involved with an "encyclopaedia" than a commoner's
"encyclopedia".
I find it especially bothersome to encounter the word "paedophile",
since I hardly think pedophiles deserve to be dignified with a
pretentiously dressed-up spelling.
And I find that PBE is used by people who actually know English as it is
properly used.
Unfortunately, having written in both Canadian and Australian English as
well as the others, I guess that means I'm a convict who lives in an igloo,
drinks tea with the pinky extended, and carries a gun with him at all times.