Time Zones and Places!

[Mercutio]

I'm in GMT -5 hours (east coast of the U.S.)

[Lalaith_Elf]

Originally posted by Hanza
oh but it does....

i be alonely englander with real bad english

so thats well GMT + 0 and i live in Bedfordshire,England
as i have no state thought id go for county instead. clever huh?

And I be a lonely Geordie

Same here: Northumberland, England.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Lalaith_Elf
But then you Americans, and any other country that uses the month first way, will probably say that the European way is wrong. It's just what you've grown up with that seems right.

I don't say it's wrong - i just say it's different. I never cared about what measurement system someone else uses - or how they spelt their words, or how they form their dates. If someone says something in celsius or metric - I just convert it. it's that easy. I'm not going to change the way I do things - and I don't expect the US to do it just because the rest of the world finds it difficult.

[Lalaith_Elf]

Originally posted by jerseydevil
I don't say it's wrong - i just say it's different. I never cared about what measurement system someone else uses - or how they spelt their words, or how they form their dates. If someone says something in celsius or metric - I just convert it. it's that easy. I'm not going to change the way I do things - and I don't expect the US to do it just because the rest of the world finds it difficult.

BTW - the time format is adjustable on the user cp. So Europeans can have their date formats in the format that they feel comfortable with - but the default is American format - since this is an American Messgaeboard.

I never said that you should change it, I was just stateing that everyone has their different ways of doing things. It's what makes people individual.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Lalaith_Elf
I never said that you should change it, I was just stateing that everyone has their different ways of doing things. It's what makes people individual.

Well I didn't mean it directed at you - and maybe I should have left my other thoughts in there. It's just that it seems like a lot of people think that we should move to the metric system, that we should write our dates in the european style, the we should use the british spelling.

By the way - it seems like VBulletin doesn't give users a way to specify the date format. I thought it did - PHPBB does. Oh well.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

Originally posted by jerseydevil
TomAHto is the stuck up with the nose in the air way of saying it.

tomAHto is the correct pronunciation
that being the english pronunciation
the english language was invented
by the english -
ipso facto: english pronunciation is
always the right pronunciation

for my location, i thought i would confuse you all
Village: Holford
Nr Town: Nr Bridgwater
Area: Sedgmoor
County: Somerset
Region: South West
Sub-Division: England
Country: United Kingdom

BTW another question for americans (and anyone else who does it!)
why do you call the season of autumn 'fall'?
is it just an urban myth that it is because leaves fall of the trees in autumn?
and what word do you use instead of 'autumnal'?
because 'fallal' just sounds ridiculous

[Rían]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Hey RÃ*an, just wondered why you sometimes point out in which city a mooter lives in, like while for some mooters, you only mention the country, like even though both Falagar and I have mentioned which cities we live in under 'location'

Oh, sorry, it just slipped my notice - had a lot of additions

by JD
Rian - why is gollum listed as Vancouver Canada and I'm only listed as New Jersey USA?

Because I didn't know you lived in Plainsboro - I'll go add it now

Just like the Picture Thread, please PM me if you want an update/change.


BTW, do the Vancouverites like "Vancouver, BC, Canada", or what?

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Last Child of Ungoliant
tomAHto is the correct pronunciation
that being the english pronunciation
the english language was invented
by the english -
ipso facto: english pronunciation is
always the right pronunciation

No it's not always right - because American English is different. We reinvented the lanuage when we sent Britain back across the ocean. This is the reason why there is British dictionaries and American dictionaries. There are two different English languages and American English is no more wrong than saying French is wrong because it's not German.

BTW another question for americans (and anyone else who does it!)
why do you call the season of autumn 'fall'?
is it just an urban myth that it is because leaves fall of the trees in autumn?
and what word do you use instead of 'autumnal'?
because 'fallal' just sounds ridiculous

We say fal because the leaves fall and we don't say autumnal at all. I see it's an adjective - but I don't see why you would say something is autumnal.

[Rían]

OK, I think I got all the updates -

ALso, are the English people OK with just England, or do you want UK, too?

Let me know your preferences, Mooters.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by RÃ*an
Because I didn't know you lived in Plainsboro - I'll go add it now

Well you better get to it. I thought you were giving the Candadians special treatment.

[Valandil]

Originally posted by jerseydevil

We say fal because the leaves fall and we don't say autumnal at all. I see it's an adjective - but I don't see why you would say something is autumnal.

'autumnal equinox'... but most Americans just call it 'the first day of fall'... for short!

(ED: we actually use BOTH words... 'fall' and 'autumn'... besides, the autumnal equinox is the first day of SPRING in the S Hemisphere, right?)

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

so what colour do you call autumnal then
how do you get in autumnal moods?

[GrayMouser]

Taiwan: GMT +8;

no DST - too near the Equator- I miss twilight

!2:00 noon GMT = 8:00 pm

And, of course, "tomato", like "potato", is not English- it comes from the Aztec language, which is why Tolkien dropped it from the revised version of 'The Hobbit' in favor of 'pickles'.

Not that I ever fall into the etymological fallacy....

(My parents coming from Lancashire, I grew up pronouncing it 'to-MAR-to', causing ridicule and psychological trauma at school )

[Valandil]

Originally posted by Last Child of Ungoliant
so what colour do you call autumnal then
how do you get in autumnal moods?

You mean 'color'...right?

[Rían]

Originally posted by jerseydevil
Well you better get to it. I thought you were giving the Candadians special treatment.

Better be nice to me, or I"ll make an evil change .... *heh heh*

[Valandil]

Originally posted by GrayMouser
... causing ridicule and psychological trauma at school )

now THAT explains a lot!!!

(uh-oh, better not even TELL GM all the kindza things that have warped ME!! )

[GrayMouser]

autumnal= fallish?

Or is it the whole conversation that is fallish?

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Valandil
'autumnal equinox'... but most Americans just call it 'the first day of fall'... for short!

Oh yeah - forgot about that. We only hear it once a year though - it's not llike it's a normal conversation.

(ED: we actually use BOTH words... 'fall' and 'autumn'... besides, the autumnal equinox is the first day of SPRING in the S Hemisphere, right?)

yes - i have used both words and it is standard here to use both. I mostly use fall though.

Originally posted by Last Child of Ungoliant
how do you get in autumnal moods?

See that's a cultural saying because of your weather. We don't get fall weather like that - we have the "Winter blues" at least in some parts of the country. Indiana is much more dreary during the winter than NJ. In Oregon it just rains and rains and rains during the winter.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

in uk, it rains all year,
but we have three days of warm weather in july, that is summer
and the rest of the year is mostly winter

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Last Child of Ungoliant
in uk, it rains all year,
but we have three days of warm weather in july, that is summer
and the rest of the year is mostly winter

in oregon the rainy season besically starts in October and goes to about May or June - then June/July - September it's draught.

Different culture, seasons and life experiences affect a language. That is why we say fall.