Why do people insist on mispelling common words?

Originally posted by GT40FIED
I'm actually looking at my Vtech phone as I type this. And just to piss people off I refer to vtec as "variable timing electronically controlled". If it's Canidiots spelling this way...it's just one more reason I'm not a fan of Canada. Nothing against any Canadians here...but I can't stand the way you guys spell shit or talk.

So what's wrong with Canadians spelling words the same way the English spell them? Afterall the language is English and the spellings you refer to were only changed in America. So if anybody were to be "wrong" here it would be the Americans.

Languages evolve, every person uses a language in their own particular way (idiolect), deal with it.

What annoys me is people who constantly b*tch about language differences. It's just another form of discrimination.

There is no one, true, proper language.

About a good 99% or more of the language you use on a regular basis is only the bastardization, creolization, abbreviation, or other modification of a different or previous language. To think you're right and they're wrong makes about as much sense as Bush in a press conference.

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