Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> With a u, you mean, of course...
>>>>>
>>>> No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh...
>>>> No wonder your empire fell apart.
>>>>
>>> That is very rude to say on a public mailing list. I agree that everyone
>>> is entitled to their opinion. May be you are right and may be you are
>>> wrong. But this could potentially result in flame wars. May be you meant it
>>> in a funny way! But this is taking it too far. Not everyone might take it
>>> as you intended it to.
>>>
>> I should probably clarify for the international audience that Ron is using
>> sarcasm, a form of deadpan humor. Ron is probably more apathetic about
>> spelling than his words let on.
>>
>
> Yes, thank you. I was trying and miserably failing to be humourous.
>
>
Not "miserably"; _I_ found it to be humorous, but I can see Kamaraju's
point.
--
Kent
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