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