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  • I agree completely. Yet the spelling in each of those scenarios is still identical, which is what I was driving at originally. Colour and color do not denote a difference in pronunciation; and this is backed up by the phonetics listed for the respective words in American and English dictionaries... The phonetics are identical.

    Accents muddy this, which is why they should be disregarded when comparing the phonetics between variations of English words.

    Otherwise we'd need at least 3 pages for each word in the dictionary just to list the phonetics for each accent in the UK. Let alone the rest of the English speaking nations.

  • Accent <> pronunciation.

  • *knight.

    A white night would be a truly terrifying sight.

  • You perceive colour/color and catalogue/catalog to be pronounced differently?

    I'd have to disagree with that, and it seems American grammar is still aligned with British in that they're still identical phonetically. I think it's important to disregard accent in this discussion, as it isn't relevant to the spelling. An Indian man saying colour will sound different to an Irishman saying colour for example, but that has nothing to do with the spelling; just the respective accent.

    The difference in spelling was an act of defiance by the Americans during the British empire days. In many cases it has nothing to do with a difference in pronunciation . It's an interesting slice of history, and I'd recommend anyone who isn't aware to read up on the subject it really ruffled some feathers on this side of the pond, and some 200 years later, people still aren't over it. It was some of the highest quality trolling in recent history (one that I believe trumps the Boston tea party; but I guess that's a matter of opinion).

  • Are you saying that miaow and meow sound different phonetically to you?

    Its not cockney rhyming slang, but rather a simple variance in spelling. Do colour Vs color/ catalogue Vs catalog etc... sound different phonetically to you also?

    I'm a native English speaker, so maybe that's why they seem identical; but I could see how a different mother tongue would change that perspective.

    Edit: removed aluminium because I momentarily forgot that Americans say 'aloomanum' and that one isn't an example of a spelling variance with identical phonetics.

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    The duality of man

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  • When is it ever about anything else?

  • Tbf, I'd imagine trump spends all of his time on twitter writing incoherent babble, rather than reading what anyone else has to say.

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  • Getting your tackle out; a war tradition almost as old as bonking someone on the head with a metal object.

    Less practiced by armed militias and moreso 'crackhead locals' these days; it remains an incredibly effective tactic.

  • Wow, how is this walking corpse still vertical?

    Last I saw of him was in Sasha baron Cohen's "This is America", and even then he looked like the protagonist in a parody called "weekend at Rudi's"

  • So you're saying that snow white is the first person to do a "just woke up like this" makeup selfie?

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  • UT stands for Ubuntu touch ;) I'm already on a Linux phone. I'm talking about app development.

  • Linux

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  • "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my distro. Prepare to die"

  • Did you read the article? Your final sentence pretty much sums up what happened.

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  • True. Being mindful of which brand you buy is becoming ever more important for those of us who are privacy focused.

    Volla, Jolla, fairphone, pinephone etc.. are good examples of companies that ship phones with native Linux support. You can buy them preloaded, I haven't heard any ruminations of these bootloaders being locked away, but admittedly don't know their stances on the subject. Locking down the bootloader to the point where it doesn't seem worth it seems to be more of a mainstream approach though for sure. (I still remember trying to get lineageOS on my Motorola... Just, wow).

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  • Ubuntu touch is Linux based also, which is my choice due to newer hardware support over postmarket. (Currently running a volla quintus) Though I can see myself moving over to sailfish, as the default browser in UT is morph based, and creating web apps can be something of a pain due to unsupported browser issues....

    All of these OS' suffer from a lack of app development though, hopefully this Google nonsense helps change that, though mass adoption is usually the precursor to app dev, hence my pie in the sky comment.

  • Wish my parents named me something cool like stairdrarc the netherwatcher.

  • The key difference is that one is advised, the other is enforced.

  • I didn't know it was snowing in Gloucestershire.