[hyteckit]

So I got an email about these cool new software. Littlesnapper.

Looking at the webpage, it seems cool. However, what stands out is the word "organise" and "organised".

Maybe it's the programmer's fault. Maybe it's the graphic artists fault. Maybe it's spelled differently in England? Maybe it's a slang?

http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/

[dcmacdaddy]

Check out the company link at the top right of the page. It gives the following information.

Realmac Software Limited
Office 4, 100 North Road
Brighton, BN1 1YE
United Kingdom

In British English spelling "s" is frequently used where a "z" would be used in American English spelling. Nothing wrong here at all.

[design219]

Organised? Is that an acceptable spelling?

Yez.

[reader50]

there is a complimentary stamp, you can guess the URL

[Laminar]

Is there some sort of angled-graphics-maker that only MacNN moderators have access to?

[turtle777]

Zis is aunikzetibble.

-t

[hyteckit]

Guess these guys are from the UK. Never realize realmac software is a UK based company. I meant "realise".

[lexapro]

Absolutely incorrect spelling.

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

Maybe it's the programmer's fault. Maybe it's the graphic artists fault.

Maybe they passed English.

[Dakar V]

Well, since no one stepped up to make the "asshole comment" yet, this is the first time you've run into the s substituted for z anywhere on the internet (Hell, on these forums)? Colour me surprized.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

Colour me surprized.

My neighbour was surprised about it too.

[mattyb]

And by the way, the letter Z is pronounced 'Z E D'. Not 'Z E E'.

Here endeth the lesson.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

And by the way, the letter Z is pronounced 'Z E D'. Not 'Z E E'.

Here endeth the lesson.

And the letter B is pronounced BED, C SED, D DED, E ED, G JED, P PED, and T TED.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

And the letter... C SED...

So what's S?

[Dakar V]

What the hell are you talking about?

[mattyb]

Can't think of an amusing retort. +1 to Dakar.

On a more serious note, I think that 'English' spellings will die out since most people who learn English, learn the AmericaniZed version.

[design219]

Omg

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

And by the way, the letter Z is pronounced 'Z E D'. Not 'Z E E'.

Here endeth the lesson.

Zed is truu.

-t

[Eug]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

AmericaniZed

AmericaniZ?

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by design219 

Omg

So, in proper english, is zomg spelled somg?

[design219]

I guezz zo.

[Oneota]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

So, in proper english, is zomg spelled somg?

Yes, but it's pronounced "SOMJED"

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

So, in proper english, is zomg spelled somg?

Ridiculouz.

-t

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by Oneota 

Yes, but it's pronounced "SOMJED"

Nice.

[iMOTOR]

Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead.

[Eug]

We are not amuzed.

[CharlesS]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

Guess these guys are from the UK. Never realize realmac software is a UK based company. I meant "realise".

If you're going to complain about people's spelling, you might want to watch all those sentence fragments.

[reader50]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Is there some sort of angled-graphics-maker that only MacNN moderators have access to?

They're forum stamps, like those stampers the secret police use on your papers if they don't arrest you. Also called moderator stamps.

The original 4 stamps were made by MrTomServo in 2001. Those got boring after six years with nothing new, so I've been making new ones as needed.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

If you're going to complain about people's spelling, you might want to watch all those sentence fragments.

Suppressed pronominal subject (and a missing d) ≠ sentence fragment.

Originally Posted by Dakar V

And the letter B is pronounced BED, C SED, D DED, E ED, G JED, P PED, and T TED.

There are three very good reasons why z is pronounced ‘zed’, and not ‘zee’:

1. It increases the difference in pronunciation between c and z (m and n could use a similar differentiator)
2. Unlike most of the letters of the alphabet, which have retained (more or less) the pronunciation the Romans gave the individual letters, z was never an indigenous Latin letter, but was borrowed from Greek ζήτα zēta, which is where ‘zed’ comes from.
3. ‘Zee’ sounds ridiculous.

[Dakar V]

[Laminar]

Catching some Zeds?

[shifuimam]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

If you're going to complain about people's spelling, you might want to watch all those sentence fragments.

He should probably also realize that the past tense of "realize" is "realized".

[zro]

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Catching some Zeds?

Excellent.

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by shifuimam 

He should probably also realize that the past tense of "realize" is "realized".

I don't think you realize what you are saying.

[osiris]

One of these days I'm gonna get organezized.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by osiris 

One of these days I'm gonna get organezized.

They just had that on 3rd Rock the other night.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

They just had that on 3rd Rock the other night.

3rd Rock is stealing from Taxi Driver now?

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by osiris 

3rd Rock is stealing from Taxi Driver now?

Only if Taxi Driver came up with that sign.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

Only if Taxi Driver came up with that sign.

Yep, Scorcese personally owns the copyright and trademark.

[Dakar V]

Curses! Foiled again!

[shifuimam]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

Guess these guys are from the UK. Never realize realmac software is a UK based company. I meant "realise".

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

I don't think you realize what you are saying.

"Never realize realmac software is a UK based company" makes no sense, unless the meaning of the sentence is imperative - e.g. "Don't ever realize realmac software is a UK based company".

The context of your post indicates that you meant you had not, until it was pointed out here, realized that realmac is a UK based company.

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by shifuimam 

"Never realize realmac software is a UK based company" makes no sense, unless the meaning of the sentence is imperative - e.g. "Don't ever realize realmac software is a UK based company".

The context of your post indicates that you meant you had not, until it was pointed out here, realized that realmac is a UK based company.

I never understood the need for people to explain things to me that I will never understand.

I have come to the realization that nothing has been accomplished from this thread.

[design219]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

I have come to the realization that nothing has been accomplished from this thread.

Are you kidding? Dakar has made headway toward his fifth, fifth star.

[shifuimam]

Wait...you don't understand the fundamental difference between the past and present tense of verbs?

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by shifuimam 

Wait...you don't understand the fundamental difference between the past and present tense of verbs?

Past and present tense? I thought I was suppose to use Present Perfect Tense?

[Laminar]

Present Perfect Tense is so Past Tense.

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Present Perfect Tense is so Past Tense.

I never ever understood the Perfect Tense. It doesn't make any sense. Ever.

[Dakar V]

The tense doesn't make sense? The tense doesn't make sense! Hence, if tenses made sense, then tenses wouldn't make me pensive. But tenses make me pensive and my senses say they make hyteckit tense too.

Edit: Welcome to Dakar posts made in the last half-hour of a brutal day.

[Laminar]

I'm still in my pajamas. Approaching hour 17 of a take-home final exam.