Listen, Kevin: When you're in a hole, stop digging. <http://i.eho.st/ppqsgmzg.png>
You started this nonsense by claiming that "the correct spelling of privileges" was "debateable". <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debateable> Your first mistake was to try to refute Daniel's correction without consulting a dictionary. You then proceeded to demand that OpenBSD maintainers make your preferred incorrect spelling their preference -- which apart from the incorrectness is presumptuous, because what the OpenBSD maintainers prefer is not for you to decide. The error of your ways was duly pointed out to you by several different people (which should have told you something). Yet instead of saying, "Oops. My bad." and moving on, you've not found it in you to admit a simple mistake and you have instead continued to engage in ever more outlandish contortions in an effort to refight a lost game. I've got news for you, Kevin: The ballgame is over. Everybody else has taken their private law and gone home. You think you're still standing on a private ledge, but you're not. You're in a hole. And you're still digging: On 16 September 2011 13:14, Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]> wrote: > privil'ee'gium > > And how do they sound now, completely different, As of this writing, one current Google hit for that: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg105802.html> In other words, you just pulled that out of your arse. Of course, if *I* get to build the straw man, I too can make sure it's easy for me to pull down. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man> > if the 'correct' spelling is prvilege It's not. > and despite that many still use priviledge (even some publishers) Rectally extracted claim. Yes, I know, you'll eagerly refer us to Google and say, "See, this proves that 'priviledge' is at least an established alternative spelling: <http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=privilege&word2=priviledge>" But guess what? Sometimes there are reasons why incorrect spellings get a lot of Google results. That doesn't prove that those who widely posted the incorrect spelling believe it to be anything other than incorrect orthography: <http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=moron&word2=moran> <http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/meme/get-a-brain-morans> > because it is more intuitive, Rectally extracted claim. > then which is more correct, the practice or the theory. Which is more correct, the established correct *majority practice*, or your private pet theory that you're grooming due to your inability to admit a simple mistake? > English evolves every day and contains French words etc. too, > should they be changed to Latin equivelents. I don't think anything should be changed to "equivelents". > The roots of language and Latin is Are. > very interesting for many reasons Comma. > not least the two words that make up privilege and archeology Didn't you earlier on profess a preference for British English? Actually, don't answer that; "archeology" isn't even the preferred spelling in American English either. > but this kind of historical reasoning means nothing to me. As does reasoning in general, apparently. > In my documents I will use both when Google may parse and priviledge > otherwise, Have you just revealed yourself to be nothing but SEO scum? > everyone else and the project can obviously do as they will, THANK YOU! GOODNIGHT!
