Nimble Makes a Motion

[NimbleNota]

Hello guys as you may or may not know I set up a poll the other day where I said I would announce my intentions after 20 votes and so here it is:

As you can see from my poll the majority of people live outside the United States of America, and only a small percentage from a test of 20 random people live inside the United States (20% I believe)

So my Motion is to change the name of the "The Code of Honor" by adding a "u" to the word "Honor" as this would make the word spelt in the international form of English. At current it is spelt the American way but Americans as you can see only make up a small percentage of our CoH community.

So what do you think should we kick the American English or take on the International English?

Or maybe just let people spell it as they see fit?

NimbleNota

[Tomisama]

Would Honor by any other name, not smell as sweet?

Makes no difference to me

If two others will signify by seconding the motion, and there are no objections, we will carry on the tradition of the original Honour Society.

[NihilisticCow]

lol, YES!!! I second your motion In fact the mis-spelling of honour was my only reservation upon signing.

[Jochi Khan]

I second the motion that we use the spelling ...'Honour'.

It does not alter the meaning or interpretation of the word.

Jochi

[Imorthorn]

It would be nice if it was spelt the right way

[Craterus]

I'm not at all bothered by it, but sure put it in real English if people prefer it.

[Dutch_guy]

I don't mind really , never payed to much attention to how it was spelled

[L'Impresario]

What if those who voted "outside of the US" were from Kenya? Might I guess you would be proposing "heshima" as an alternative?;)

[NimbleNota]

No what i was proposing was Americans speak "American English" for the most part and people outside of America mostly speak: "International" or "Commonwealth" english so why not represent the majority

[Wishazu]

i allways thought it was american english and proper english

[NimbleNota]

Well i always thought "proper" english made it seem as if it was somehow superior to the Americanised version of English so i try to avoid that word in hopes of not offending anyone who is American

[Wishazu]

hehe, im just adopting my naturally superior english mode lol joke. by proper english i mean the language spoken by the english people in england.

[Tomisama]

Ok then, I will make the changes this weekend (may require a little more than you think).

The Total War Multiplayer "Code of Honor" will become the "Code of Honour".

[NimbleNota]

[xLittleCrowx]

Well, I'm from the States and I say you can misspell it anyway you like...

I see no reason to honor the minority as such....

[Wishazu]

welcome to our forums littlecrow

[Voigtkampf]

Honour sounds too French for my taste... It is always “honor” and “armor” for me, and that’s it. But I will go with the flow of majority… Or should I say I’ll be carried away by it?

Honour mon amor… Hmmm…

[Agravain of Orkney]

As an American playing Total War for a few years now, I find myself automatically sticking a "u" in honour and armour in my real life writing, which usually gets grabbed by my spell-checker....... and those words without the "u" now look odd to me.

[Nigel]

hmmm, I have to say "honor" looks odd to me. Not wanting to say what is the right or the wrong spelling - just what you are used to I guess.

And yes, you know you have played too much of certain games when you go to work in the morning and say to your boss "Greetings, Sire".

[Wishazu]

And yes, you know you have played too much of certain games when you go to work in the morning and say to your boss "Greetings, Sire".

or when someone cracks and joke and you say "lol" instead of laughing

[NimbleNota]

Or when you are talking on the phone and say "brb" to get the doorbell

Not that I ever did it

[Jochi Khan]

LOL.......I wonder

Jochi

[ichi]

Not to labor the point, and certainly not that I am the center of it all, but I would like to open a dialog, especially since Nota is one of my favorite guys, but there is a big gray area, and while I wouldn't want to color the discussion, let's analyze the manner in which this will fulfill our promise and affect our enrollment.

I won't make an argument or defense of the American spelling of honor so lets get on with the program.

call it whatever, but be careful not to say that one way is right or better than another, its not honorable to do so.

ichi

[NimbleNota]

call it whatever, but be careful not to say that one way is right or better than another, its not honorable to do so.

Never did I do such a thing

[antisocialmunky]

I don't think people who live in America particularly care about the extra 'u.'

It's actually kinda funny to read this post since no average American would care. It's like liter and litre, no one really cares on way or another unless it's the first time they see it.


I think the extra 'u' makes it look aesthetically better. My two cents.

[Tomisama]

Done



http://www.clanwarscomp.org/codeofhonour

Now to get the forum name changed.

[tibilicus]

Tomi. It's setled, you really are my idol. Only you could offer us such a great gift. All hail Tomi!

[predaturd]

I don't think people who live in America particularly care about the extra 'u.'

It's actually kinda funny to read this post since no average American would care. It's like liter and litre, no one really cares on way or another unless it's the first time they see it.


I think the extra 'u' makes it look aesthetically better. My two cents.

It's litre, liter makes no sense at all, re is a unit er is something that measures the unit.
centimetre
thermometer
last i checked a litre is a unit of volume, therefore its re not er.




PS, waaaay up there ^ if you're going to make such a big deal out of americanisms at least use spelled instead of spelt...

[Timothyier]

I do not think that people who live in America particularly concerned about the extra "u".

It's actually pretty funny to read that message, because there is no average American could care less. It's like gallons and gallons, no one really cares anyway, unless the first time they see it.