[sdiy] (very OT?) Analog vs. Analogue - opinions needed

[David Ingebretsen]

For a spelling test once for fun, I wrote "colour" and "grey" (I'm in
America) instead of color and gray. The teacher was not amused...

David 

~~ -----Original Message-----
~~ From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
~~ bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Scott
~~ Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:47 AM
~~ To: Tom Wiltshire
~~ Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
~~ Subject: RE: [sdiy] (very OT?) Analog vs. Analogue - opinions needed
~~ 
~~ Hey, I did say dumb American!
~~ (and my spell checker is apparently just as dumb)
~~ 
~~ -----Original Message-----
~~ From: Tom Wiltshire [mailto:tom at electricdruid.net]
~~ Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:57 AM
~~ To: Scott
~~ Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
~~ Subject: Re: [sdiy] (very OT?) Analog vs. Analogue - opinions needed
~~ 
~~ 
~~ On 4 Jul 2009, at 16:21, Scott wrote:
~~ 
~~ > I'm a dumb american, but generally use the Ue spelling just to be
~~ > different.  (if it were a paper for work or school, I wouldn't)
~~ > Having said that, in reality I look at the shortening and
~~ > simplification while still conveying the same amount of information
~~ > as progress!  Why not have language and spelling as simple as can
~~ > be, as long as you aren't loosing any information in the process.
~~ 
~~ That'd be "losing any information"...;)
~~ 
~~ T.
~~ 
~~ 
~~ 
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