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Originally Posted by HarryT
She actually lives in the Republic of Ireland, not the UK  . |
(smacks forhead) I ought to know better, living as I do, in the Republic of Texas. I guess that's the 'American' momentarily overriding the 'Texan' -- you know: temporary insanity.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
"car park" ... "letter box" ... "trainers"....
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See, none of those would bother me, and I actually already knew what the Philosopher's Stone was so I was a bit disappointed in the title differences.
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Originally Posted by William Moates
I read at a "verbal" speed--basically reading out loud in my head.
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My brain runs much faster than my mouth can keep up with -- sometimes that's a
really good thing, I'd say reading aloud slows me down about 65%. I don't consider myself a speed reader, but I do seem to read faster than average. (it took me a week to read Battlefield Earth's 1066 pages, my brother did it in 3.5 days, probably just to annoy me
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Originally Posted by William Moates
It also might be a difference in learning styles. On the visual/verbal scale, I'm decidedly visual, so the differences between UK and US spellings are more noticable.
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Kinesthetic learner myself, both visual and written but I have to
do something to really 'get' it.
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Also, I'm an above-average speller (probably in the top 10%), so maybe that's why I notice it more. |
Now there you might be onto something. I'm a crummy speller, I once misspelled
my own name signing a birthday card ... for my
mother. Programming has had an effect on that though, I'm now much more consistent in my misspellings ('cause variable names don't have to be spelled
right, just the
same), and if I actually get a spelling correct in my head, I'm pretty likely to spell the word correctly from then on.
I've actually thought about buying the UK versions of HP just to compare the differences in the language. So far, I haven't felt the spirit move me enough to do that yet.
