Eating a whole box of Girl Scout Cookies?

[Linderbee]

Thanks buddy, good to know I am risking vomitting and ruining one of my favorite treats for something that is already being thought of as lame.

fwiw, I don't think it's lame. Stupid, maybe, but not lame.

 

[D-Dogg]

Thanks buddy, good to know I am risking vomitting and ruining one of my favorite treats for something that is already being thought of as lame.

Being compared to the Beers thread most things would be lame.

 

[jenna2891]

fwiw, I don't think it's lame. Stupid, maybe, but not lame.

don't listen to her. she clearly has no sense of proper judgement.

 

[Linderbee]

don't listen to her. she clearly has no sense of proper judgement.

judgment.

 

[jenna2891]

judgment.

both are acceptable.

 

[Linderbee]

both are acceptable.

variants accepted because people can't be bothered to use it correctly don't really count in my book...shouldn't in yours, either.

 

[jenna2891]

variants accepted because people can't be bothered to use it correctly don't really count in my book...shouldn't in yours, either.

it isn't a colloquialism, it's the original spelling. yours is the bastardized version.

 

[Linderbee]

it isn't a colloquialism, it's the original spelling. yours is the bastardized version.

nope.

 

[jenna2891]

nope.

yes. spelling it with the "e" is the original spelling.

 

[Pariah]

AP Stylebook says: "judgment Not judgement."

 

[Linderbee]

yes. spelling it with the "e" is the original spelling.

nope.

 

[Linderbee]

from Wiki:

Spelling

Traditionally, the word has been spelled judgment in all forms of the English language. However, the spelling judgement (with e added) largely replaced judgment in the United Kingdom in a non-legal context. In the context of the law, however, judgment is preferred. This spelling change contrasts with other similar spelling changes made in American English, which were rejected in the UK. In the US at least, judgment is still preferred and judgement is considered incorrect by many American style guides. As with many such spelling differences, both forms are equally acceptable in Canadian English and Australian English. In New Zealand English the form judgment is the preferred spelling in dictionaries, newspapers and legislation, although the variant judgement can also be found in all three categories. In South African English, judgement is the more common form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment

 

[jenna2891]

AP Stylebook says: "judgment Not judgement."

only in the case of a judge's judgment.

 

[D-Dogg]

it isn't a colloquialism, it's the original spelling. yours is the bastardized version.

nope.

yes. spelling it with the "e" is the original spelling.

AP Stylebook says: "judgment Not judgement."

nope.

from Wiki:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment

Well, this is a hourse of a different colour.

 

[Linderbee]

only in the case of a judge's judgment.

in the UK...here...AMERICA, where we live (most of us, anyway), it's w/o an e...admit you're wrong...

 

[jenna2891]

from Wiki:

In the context of the law, however

seeing as how i was not speaking within the context of the law, i re-state: both are acceptable.

 

[jenna2891]

in the UK...here...AMERICA, where we live (most of us, anyway), it's w/o an e...admit you're wrong...

how am i wrong? you claim that both are not acceptable. they clearly are in this case, the case being made further by your own research.

i'll accept your apology whenever your pride will allow it.

 

[Linderbee]

seeing as how i was not speaking within the context of the law, i re-state: both are acceptable.

Again, that is in the UK...not here.

 

[jenna2891]

Again, that is in the UK...not here.

nope.

 

[D-Dogg]

how am i wrong?

Where shall we start?

 

[jenna2891]

Where shall we start?

good luck finding someplace... it doesn't exist.

 

[Linderbee]

how am i wrong? you claim that both are not acceptable. they clearly are in this case, the case being made further by your own research.

i'll accept your apology whenever your pride will allow it.

I claim that laziness and being uneducated is unacceptable. The only place it's acceptable is in England...whoopee. You are educated--you should use the proper spelling. You are wrong. I realize that the spelling doesn't really affect anything, except that continued misuse leaves a lasting, negative effect on the country as a whole.

 

[Pariah]

We're all civilized folk here. We abide by the rule of the AP Stylebook. It's important to have a single source on matters such as these. And, in this case, that single source is my 1998 version.

...but don't ask me anything about things on page 133/134 (the second to last page in the M's). It's missing.

 

[jenna2891]

I claim that laziness and being uneducated is unacceptable. The only place it's acceptable is in England...whoopee. You are educated--you should use the proper spelling. You are wrong. I realize that the spelling doesn't really affect anything, except that continued misuse leaves a lasting, negative effect on the country as a whole.

how is it lazy or ignorant to use an acceptable form of a word?

 

[Linderbee]

nope.

yep.