| BluesKaj | Hiyas | 13:40 |
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| genii-around | Bleh. House-mates kids gave everyone a nasty flu. If i didn't have to be at work today I would have just slept and lived off Neo-Citran | 14:47 |
| BluesKaj | hey genii-around ...bummer :( | 14:49 |
| genii-around | Well, at least no work until Monday so thats good. | 14:50 |
| PotatoeHead | hey Canadians! | 14:50 |
| * genii-around slides PotatoeHead a Tim Horton's coffee | 14:50 | |
| PotatoeHead | do you choose American English or British English when (in 99% of the cases lol) there's no Canadian English option? | 14:51 |
| PotatoeHead | hey genii-around | 14:51 |
| genii-around | UK or British | 14:51 |
| PotatoeHead | that's the same >.< | 14:52 |
| genii-around | As far as dictionaries, yup | 14:53 |
| BluesKaj | PotatoeHead, we still use a lot of british spellings but american spelling is used more and more in our print media because the education system doesn't know the difference , or doesn't care anymore | 14:54 |
| genii-around | BluesKaj: I find the Sun especially bad for that | 14:54 |
| BluesKaj | yhup | 14:54 |
| PotatoeHead | you use truck instead of lorry and gas(osline) instead of petrol and stuff, but you maintain colour instead of color and stuff | 14:54 |
| BluesKaj | PotatoeHead, exactly | 14:55 |
| PotatoeHead | so when you're browsing a website or w/e, and there's en_US or en_GB, what do you choose? | 14:55 |
| BluesKaj | jail instead odf gaol | 14:55 |
| PotatoeHead | yh lol | 14:55 |
| genii-around | PotatoeHead: Because I'm not crazy about Americans I choose GB when possible | 14:56 |
| PotatoeHead | I see | 14:56 |
| PotatoeHead | and do you think most Canadians choose GB too? | 14:57 |
| BluesKaj | like most of us genii-around | 14:57 |
| genii-around | PotatoeHead: I'd like to think they do, but these days they probably are apathetic | 14:57 |
| PotatoeHead | meaning they go with US? | 14:58 |
| genii-around | Or whatever the default is | 14:58 |
| BluesKaj | yeah , they don't care | 14:58 |
| PotatoeHead | and is it just limited to online things and stuff or do they even choose en_US when en_CA is available? | 14:59 |
| PotatoeHead | school for example | 14:59 |
| genii-around | The school system changed, so that less emphasis is placed on spelling and so on, and more on self-actualisation, etc | 14:59 |
| PotatoeHead | :O | 14:59 |
| BluesKaj | yeah, whatever that's supposed to mean | 15:00 |
| PotatoeHead | what does the government think about it? | 15:00 |
| PotatoeHead | did they switch to US too? | 15:00 |
| genii-around | No | 15:00 |
| BluesKaj | is grammaar even taught in schools anymore ? | 15:01 |
| genii-around | BluesKaj: Sadly, not so much | 15:01 |
| genii-around | Work, back shortly | 15:02 |
| PotatoeHead | no offence, but that seems to be messed up :/ | 15:02 |
| PotatoeHead | I have my system's spelling and grammar checker set to en_CA, but Gmail for example is only available in en_US or en_GB >.< | 15:03 |
| PotatoeHead | so say I'm typing an email in Gmail, it'll mark color, but one of the tips won't say colour :/ | 15:04 |
| BluesKaj | there's no setting in gmail for Canadian English , altho there's a google.ca search ,..go figure | 15:06 |
| PotatoeHead | I know right! | 15:07 |
| PotatoeHead | it's messed up | 15:07 |
| PotatoeHead | so what should I do? keep a mix of both or switch to US - which would feel betrayalish lol | 15:08 |
| BluesKaj | PotatoeHead, stick with british , it's quite flexible | 15:22 |
| BluesKaj | even brit spellings and words have changed over the yrs | 15:22 |
| PotatoeHead | GB is really awkward though >.< | 15:24 |
| BluesKaj | PotatoeHead, well, you asked :) | 15:26 |
| PotatoeHead | :D | 15:26 |
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