May 10, 200521 yr Author What's "Amerenglish?(sic)"? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> answer : the reason for a spell-checker(I'm glad someone spotted the deliberate mistake ,that's my excuse anyway) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry to only answer half of your question; sic,used to indicate a quoted passage or word ,especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been quoted in its original form or written intentionally <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm familiar with "sic", roscoe - it's the original post with "Amerenglish" - I'm not with you there, buddy! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Spoken in a very sardonic manner by Jeremy Paxman on News Night; ""Amerenglish"?Well I suppose it's slightly more self descriptive than some words I have encountered! Where he encountered it I know not. (I will endeavour to find out) Edited May 10, 200521 yr by roscoe
May 10, 200521 yr Author If you use Mac OS/X it has a system-wide spell-checker that you can activate in any properly written application. Checks spelling as you type.It flagged this: "colour" as misspelled! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ...I assume you can correct it's Amerenglish so that it knows better next time...? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It also flagged endeavour as a vairient of endeavor .Cheek.
May 10, 200521 yr Author Only the language of love is universal <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not if it's got a "u" in it apparently . It would also change the spelling of that wellknown brand <deleted> to the same as the word it is not supposed to resemble?
May 12, 200521 yr I wish I could find a translation site (like babelfish) from Thai to English as most of the business websites in Thailand don't have English versions. Where have you been? Have a look here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32659 and here: http://www.thai2english.com and here: http://www.thai-language.com Not what i'm looking for as it doesn't help with translating a biz or forum type of website so really serves no good to me. I guess Thai business people just don't want to do biz, sad isn't it.
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