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Re: These two bytes may not matter to you...
« Reply #30 on August 11th, 2011, 07:42 PM »
Hmm... In French we have 'plus simple' and 'plus simplement'. They really don't mean the same thing. "It's simpler to do this (c'est plus simple de faire ça)", and "He did it in a simpler way (il l'a fait plus simplement)" or "Simply put, you suck at English (plus simplement, t'es nul en anglais)".
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« Reply #31 on August 12th, 2011, 02:38 PM »
Since we often have the same spelling and pronunciation of words for different parts of speech (more can be used as an adjective, an adverb, or (rarely) as a noun), we don't much care about the difference between adjectives and adverbs.
So it is common to see "She spoke quickly, but he spoke quicker than she did", even though it is grammatically incorrect.

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/adjAdv.asp
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« Reply #32 on August 12th, 2011, 02:39 PM »
UK or US English, out of interest?
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« Reply #33 on August 12th, 2011, 03:20 PM »
(American IP.)
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« Reply #34 on August 12th, 2011, 03:39 PM »
I was guessing American anyway, but I figured I'd clarify. US and UK English are very interestingly at odds with one another a lot of the time.
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« Reply #35 on August 12th, 2011, 03:49 PM »
Stop readin' the Oatmeal, FFS :P

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/minor_differences4
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« Reply #36 on August 12th, 2011, 03:55 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on August 12th, 2011, 03:49 PM
Stop readin' the Oatmeal, FFS :P

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/minor_differences4
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You forget, though, I'm firmly British and I regularly talk to Americans - and do find myself dealing with the accent barrier and more generally the language barrier. It's not a high barrier but it is a barrier nonetheless.[1]

But for true accent win, get a Brit, an American and a Canadian on the same conference call. ;)
 1. That pretty much proves I'm English. I have yet to see an American use 'nonetheless' and not mean it in a parody of Englishness, or otherwise trying to impress.
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« Reply #37 on August 12th, 2011, 04:05 PM »
I must be even weirder, with my constant mix between US and UK expressions. That's what happens when you learn English mostly from TV shows and the Internet. You tend to hear a bit of both ;)
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« Reply #38 on August 12th, 2011, 04:13 PM »
Ha!

Try living with an American in the UK (now naturalised I should point out)... She's infected me with Americanisms, and complains at me when I use them!

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« Reply #39 on August 12th, 2011, 04:14 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on August 12th, 2011, 04:05 PM
I must be even weirder, with my constant mix between US and UK expressions. That's what happens when you learn English mostly from TV shows and the Internet. You tend to hear a bit of both ;)
That's the thing, it never really struck me as weird; your English is better than that of most people I know, as it happens.
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Try living with an American in the UK (now naturalised I should point out)... She's infected me with Americanisms, and complains at me when I use them!
Score one for irony ;)
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« Reply #40 on August 12th, 2011, 04:18 PM »
Love your sig, PantsMan :P
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« Reply #41 on August 12th, 2011, 04:19 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on August 12th, 2011, 04:18 PM
Love your sig, PantsMan :P
Aw, yeah, I didn't actually notice that before, but yes, that's awesome, haha!
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« Reply #42 on August 12th, 2011, 05:32 PM »
Tommy Saxondale FTW - not too keen on much of Steve Coogan's recent works, but there were bits of Saxondale that made me laugh out loud.
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« Reply #43 on August 12th, 2011, 11:32 PM »
good ole americanisms.

All the zeds.  I mean zee's.
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« Reply #44 on August 16th, 2011, 06:06 PM »
Okay, I'm currently looking into doing a mass replace from 'smf_' to 'we_' in the codebase...
There are about 700 occurrences, I'm checking them manually and then I'll do the replacement.

So far so good, but apparently sessions are named smf_sess_*. Do you think it's still okay to replace them? I mean, at the worst it'll reset the session, right...?

Oh, and I know it means we can take even less code verbatim from other versions of SMF... But do we really need to?
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