My appology

[Orang Jawa]

First of all, Happy Easter everyone!
Some silat youngster provoke me with an insulting statement, I should known that. But I didn't. I did come down hard on him. With that I appologize to everyone, and hope I did not ruin your day.
Thank you,
Tristan

[Ad McG]

Why can people never spell apologise?

Yeah, I know in stupid US English it uses a z. It just really bugs me.

BTW - if you have something to say, use the topic that it is relevant to. Otherwise, you're just clogging up space.

[realitychecker]

Happy Easter to you, too Tristan! Happy Easter to ALL!

I learned a lot from that thread. No space wasted.

Peace,
JR

[Orang Jawa]

Why can people never spell apologise?

Yeah, I know in stupid US English it uses a z. It just really bugs me.

BTW - if you have something to say, use the topic that it is relevant to. Otherwise, you're just clogging up space.

Another one? :bang:
God Bless you my son!

[shax]

Why can people never spell apologise?

Yeah, I know in stupid US English it uses a z. It just really bugs me.




now that is off topic and clogging up space........


AND xenophobic!

[Ular Sawa]

Everyone seems to lose their temper on the Silat forum at one time or another Tristan. Done it myself a couple times. No big deal. Some times you just let it go when someone says something offensive, some times you can't.

[Buddy]

"Why can people never spell apologise?

Yeah, I know in stupid US English it uses a z. It just really bugs me.

BTW - if you have something to say, use the topic that it is relevant to. Otherwise, you're just clogging up space."

How about showing some repect, sonny. The stupid US? How about former world power now reduced to being France's bitch? Ooops, now I guess it's my turn to apologiZe again. Nah, not gonna happen. There's a spanner in the works.

[Gajah Silat]

How about showing some repect, sonny. The stupid US? How about former world power now reduced to being France's bitch? Ooops, now I guess it's my turn to apologiZe again. Nah, not gonna happen. There's a spanner in the works.

Aw, c'mon buddy we're Bush's bitch at the moment ;) . Besides, you guys would be lost without us to clear up your mess :D

[Sgt_Major]

Split!

Back to your corners, and dont make be draw the twins

[Buddy]

Gaj,
Bring on the bangers and mash!

[slipthejab]

Why can people never spell apologise?

Yeah, I know in stupid US English it uses a z. It just really bugs me.


Why can't some people accept that language is dynamic and not static? :confused:

[Steve Perry]

]Why can people never spell apologise?

Yeah, I know in stupid US English it uses a z. It just really bugs me.
.

I expect we over in the colonies will change the spelling of "apologize" as soon as you over on the island learn how to pronounce "aluminum" without the invisible "i" in it ...
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[neb]

Dude, we British INVENTED aluminum!

So shaaaduP! or we'll send your military coordinates for you OWN country to Nuke and you will do it! none the wiser!

Right! The boxing mitts with the british flag are now out! Long live England!

[slipthejab]

Dude, we British INVENTED aluminum!

So shaaaduP! or we'll send your military coordinates for you OWN country to Nuke and you will do it! none the wiser!

Right! The boxing mitts with the british flag are now out! Long live England!

errm... first off - your version of the history/origin of aluminum seems a bit suspect - keep reading:



The History of Aluminium

The ancient Greeks and Romans used salts of this metal as dyeing mordants and as astringents for dressing wounds, and alum is still used as a styptic. Furthermore, Joseph Needham suggested finds in 1974 showed the ancient Chinese used aluminium (see "notes" linked above). In 1761 Guyton de Morveau suggested calling the base alum 'alumine'. In 1808, Humphry Davy identified the existence of a metal base of alum, which he named (see Spelling section).

Friedrich Wöhler is generally credited with isolating aluminium (Latin alumen, alum) in 1827 by mixing anhydrous aluminium chloride with potassium. However, the metal had been produced for the first time two years earlier in an impure form by the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted. Therefore almanacs and chemistry sites often list Ørsted as the discoverer of aluminium.[2] Still it would further be P. Berthier who discovered aluminium in bauxite ore and successfully extracted it. The Frenchman Henri Saint-Claire Deville improved Wöhler's method in 1846 and described his improvements in a book in 1859, chief among these being the substitution of sodium for the considerably more expensive potassium.

The statue known as Eros in Piccadilly Circus London, was made in 1893 and is one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium.

Aluminium was selected as the material to be used for the apex of the Washington Monument, at a time when one ounce cost twice the daily wages of a common worker in the project; aluminium was a semiprecious metal at that time. [3]

The American Charles Martin Hall of Oberlin, OH applied for a patent (400655) in 1886 for an electrolytic process to extract aluminium using the same technique that was independently being developed by the Frenchman Paul Héroult in Europe. The invention of the Hall-Héroult process in 1886 made extracting aluminium from minerals cheaper, and is now the principal method in common use throughout the world. The Hall-Heroult process cannot produce Super Purity Aluminium directly. Upon approval of his patent in 1889, Hall, with the financial backing of Alfred E. Hunt of Pittsburgh, PA, started the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, renamed to Aluminum Company of America in 1907, later shortened to Alcoa.

Germany became the world leader in aluminium production soon after Adolf Hitler's rise to power. By 1942, however, new hydroelectric power projects such as the Grand Coulee Dam gave the United States something Nazi Germany could not hope to compete with, namely the capability of producing enough aluminium to manufacture sixty thousand warplanes in four years. [4]

Secondly...

Nuke the U.S.?


Puhleeze - your lot couldn't even manage to tax it let alone hang on to it as a colony. :D

Besides while you were whacking into your own nationalistic pocket the sun set on your empire and your leader became the lap dog of U.S. foreign policy.

Wake up. :rolleyes:

[Bobster]

The Black Lion is located over on Bayswater, just across from Hyde park. Let's all get together over some Guinness extra cold with fish & chips and discuss this like civiliZed people.

[Alberta]

hmmm sounds good

[CKava]

learn how to pronounce "aluminum" without the invisible "i" in it ...
The History of Aluminium
Notice anything?

[shax]

i cnt believ how dum ppl r rguing ovr spelin

or.......

1 c4nt b3l13v3 h0vv dvmb ppl r 4rgv1ng 0v3r 5p3ll1ng

[Narrue]

The Black Lion is located over on Bayswater, just across from Hyde park. Let's all get together over some Guinness extra cold with fish & chips and discuss this like civiliZed people.

Like O my God, this is like way off the topic now! But yeah that would be like totally awesome dude! We could go to England to see the Queen and after we could have pancakes and maple syrup. My mamma makes they best jerk chicken U ever tasted and me, well U got to taste my ribs, there finger licking good!…..hmmm I just LOVE ribs.

[Alberta]

Like O my God, this is like way off the topic now!

ok vicky pollard!! :D

[Gajah Silat]

OK, wildly off thread but I had to do it.

A couple of Oscar Wilde quotes. Considering the 'closeness' of GWB & TB, Oscar seemed the obvious choice ;)

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Oh and Shax, in the Silat forum we have to argue about something :D

Somebody lock the thread, please :bang:

[mikeruurds]

My mamma makes they best jerk chicken U ever tasted and me, well U got to taste my ribs, there finger licking good!

Is your mom from Jamaica :D My wife and I are going to be eating loads of jerk chicken when we head over to Negril for two weeks in July :cool:

Ribs are good too... hehe

Mike

[Bobster]

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

NOT TRUE! There are LOTS of countries who have done this, and worse...We just do it with STYLE!

[Narrue]

Is your mom from Jamaica :D My wife and I are going to be eating loads of jerk chicken when we head over to Negril for two weeks in July :cool:

Ribs are good too... hehe

Mike

No dude she’s American, from the U S of A! It’s a secret family recipe you know! But I just can’t wait to see England again but U know I’m Irish, my great, great, great granny was from Ireland. I’ve made some searching of our family tree and guess what! On my dads side they were fearsome Celtic warriors and on my mums side they are royalty. I’m even getting a kilt made, it’s my family tartan U know.
I’m going to Scotland too, but U know I’m a bit worried about their food, apparently on special occasions they eat something called a hags ass. You know I don’t mean to be rude but I’m just not sure I could eat that

[Gajah Silat]

You guys are so sensitive :D

You could do with a stiff upper lip, what? :love:

[Buddy]

pip pip, what what?

[saru1968]

old boy

[Orang Jawa]

Let's face it
English language for the Brits...so confusing..:)
There is no egg in the eggplant
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England
French fries were not invented in France.
And they invented a Pimp for a drink.....:)

[Steve Perry]

Notice anything?

Yeah. Everybody in the world pronounces the metal "alum-uh-num" save the English, who call it "al-you-min-e-um." As an American writing in American English, I use my conventions, which makes as much sense as yours.

"Apologise" has no "zee" sound in it; "apologize" does. The sibilant "ess" sound is most useful, but we don't spell "zebra" as "sebra," either ...

[CKava]

If you know there are two spellings of the word why did you suggest it was spelt incorrectly when it ends in 'ium'? and by 'everybody in the world' I take it your referring to North America?

[SilatSeeker]

and by 'everybody in the world' I take it your referring to North America?

Ummm... who else is there?

[slipthejab]

LOL!:D

[robertmap]

Hi All,

I just read all the msgs in this thread - and now I am sitting here wondering WHY???

Keep it coming - eventually it will end up back on topic by accident - kinda like monkeys and works of Shakespeare.

All the best.

Robert.

[slipthejab]

Oh puhleeze.

This thread had run it's course basically - it certainly wasn't a hotbed of interest. So why not let it take another that is a bit more interesting - besides when did MAP start losing it's sense of humour and have to be confined to such a rigidly defined structure?! :confused:

Give me a break.

[Saz]

thrd lckd...