Café or Cafe?
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- skt0
- kelpie0
fair enough chief just looking for clarification...
- determinedmoth0
are you in some kind of elected Wiki-basher position moth?
kelpie
(Mar 14 06, 02:45)Yes.
I am the elected leader of all that I see.
- skt0
Sorry baskerville. I'm sure it was a big help. And how can you manage not to buy nestle, do they not make everything in the whole world?
- kelpie0
:(
- fifty500
Thanks Baskerville for pretty much the only insightful response.
- soda0
it's fucking Kaff, innit.
And moth chips are a perfectly legit addition to an all day breakfast.
Anyway who died and left you the Mothiki of all things British!?!?!
*see's the news headlines about Kilroy's sunbed suicide..
- Baskerville0
I'm not always serious, just thought in might be useful. I spent long enough at uni writing.
Anyway, I can't have a KitKat – I don't buy Nestle products.
or should that be Nestlé?
- paraselene0
Good god baskerville are you always mr serious? Have a kitkat or something.
skt
(Mar 14 06, 02:43)leave the boy alone, sunshine.
- kelpie0
thats sad... 'cafe' shouldn't redirect to 'coffeehouse' on Wikipedia... coffeehouse is a derivative.
ribit
(Mar 14 06, 02:37)Yes well Wikipedia is run by some bloke in a pub, a student nurse, and some 12 year olds in Aldershot. You get what you pay for.
determinedmoth
(Mar 14 06, 02:43)are you in some kind of elected Wiki-basher position moth?
- kelpie0
I feel more educated now. troops?
- determinedmoth0
thats sad... 'cafe' shouldn't redirect to 'coffeehouse' on Wikipedia... coffeehouse is a derivative.
ribit
(Mar 14 06, 02:37)Yes well Wikipedia is run by some bloke in a pub, a student nurse, and some 12 year olds in Aldershot. You get what you pay for.
- skt0
Good god baskerville are you always mr serious? Have a kitkat or something.
- ribit0
thats sad... 'cafe' shouldn't redirect to 'coffeehouse' on Wikipedia... coffeehouse is a derivative.
- Baskerville0
From my dissertation entitled 'The Evolution of the Character Set' –
It is now very common to see the word café used without the acute accent: cafe. It is still obvious what is meant by the word in English as we have reappropriated the French word but in France would this be acceptable? The style guide for the Guardian newspaper says on the subject of accents: 'include all accents on French words (but not anglisicised French words such as cafe; exception: exposé, to avoid confusion with expose), and umlauts on German words. Don not use accents on other languages.'
... Other words with foreign origins have also, over time, had their original spellings and compositions forgotten. In Old English words of Greek origin which contained a letter correspoinding to the Greek 'alpha iota' were spelled with an aesc: æ. Words such as encyclopaedia should therefore be spelled 'encyclopædia'. Amercians have now dropped the aesc completely and spell the word encyclopedia.
It is important to remeber that, as Marshall McLuhan states, 'Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made bad grammar possible.'
- kelpie0
no because vegans dont drink milk you dumb dumb
rasko4
(Mar 14 06, 02:25)btw.
pwned by rasko AGAIN. :(
- kelpie0
Damn, where do I find an ALF badge?
- rasko40
I can make you one with soy milk if you like big boy, but you gotta come back with some tats and a white belt first, and preferably an ALF badge on your combat jacket
- determinedmoth0
vegans are attention seekers.