Halloween

[Craigrx]

I am SO ready for the Halloween event to start, presumably it wont start til sometime in October but still that event was one of my favorites.

 

And ona  side note I notice that Flavor is spelled with a u could this be because the servers are across the Atlantic??

 

[biostem]

2 minutes ago, Craigrx said:

I am SO ready for the Halloween event to start, presumably it wont start til sometime in October but still that event was one of my favorites.

 

And ona  side note I notice that Flavor is spelled with a u could this be because the servers are across the Atlantic??

 

I love me some trick-or-treating!  AFAIK, only 1 of the servers is in Europe....

Edited September 24, 2019 by biostem

[Craigrx]

Well obviously they are using the spelling of Flavor the way the Brits do. Thank Teddy Roosevelt for changing the spelling for us Americans 🙂

[Obsidius]

Any way you spell it, I'm hoping the Homecoming team can open the Halloween event and soon 🙂 

[boggo2300]

On 9/25/2019 at 8:04 AM, Craigrx said:

And ona  side note I notice that Flavor is spelled with a u could this be because the servers are across the Atlantic??

My wife is American, and since she emigrated to be with me (we met.on Triumph when the game was live) she is even further from the Atlantic crossing than before, and she spells flavour correctly (we do here anyway, but she did when she still lived in the US)

 

Ok wall of text to say nothing important, my apologies

Edited September 26, 2019 by boggo2300

[Craigrx]

Never said spelling it with a u was incorrect just noting that is a peculiarity

[Redlynne]

The whole flavor vs flavour thing was actually done to save on typesetting costs, because 1 less letter is cheaper to print in bulk than the alternative ... meaning that Americans did that to ultimately save pennies on the dollar, because we're just that cheap.

[Frostbiter]

8 minutes ago, Redlynne said:

The whole flavor vs flavour thing was actually done to save on typesetting costs, because 1 less letter is cheaper to print in bulk than the alternative ... meaning that Americans did that to ultimately save pennies on the dollar, because we're just that cheap.

We were fools! Fools! We never predicted it would lead to Flavor Flav and now we sit in the wreckage of our once beautiful world.

Edited September 25, 2019 by Frostbiter

[Clave Dark 5]

19 hours ago, Redlynne said:

The whole flavor vs flavour thing was actually done to save on typesetting costs, because 1 less letter is cheaper to print in bulk than the alternative ... meaning that Americans did that to ultimately save pennies on the dollar, because we're just that cheap.

Americans: The Original Min/Maxers

[Riverdusk]

On 9/25/2019 at 6:29 AM, Redlynne said:

The whole flavor vs flavour thing was actually done to save on typesetting costs, because 1 less letter is cheaper to print in bulk than the alternative ... meaning that Americans did that to ultimately save pennies on the dollar, because we're just that cheap.

Interesting bit of trivia, I always wondered how some of these differences came about.

[Feefa]

Flavour (I let gesture typing decide on the spelling) was a brand new word at the time that Europeans were travelling to the New World. I don't think it was a case of anyone adding or removing the 'u', just two different decisions when the word was finally written down. 

 

I can totally believe that printing cost was a factor in that  decision though. 🙂

[Mr. Vee]

Do we have any idea what flavour of ToT'ing we'll get on HC? If it's the old style crazy fun everyone open as many doors as you can madhouse version sign me up. If it's the snooze fest that was door timers wake me up for baby new year.

[Display Name]

This is my first Coh "rodeo" so I've never played the Halloween event.  Looking forward to it!

 

Will Summer BB be taken down?  Will the Halloween event be taken down after Halloween?

[Sidious]

I'm hoping it starts Tuesday so we have a whole Month!

[MetaVileTerror]

I booked the last week of October off from work.  Three guesses what I plan to do with all that time.

[Healix]

I love this event and look forward to it!!!!

 

[Doc_Scorpion]

On 9/25/2019 at 6:29 AM, Redlynne said:

The whole flavor vs flavour thing was actually done to save on typesetting costs, because 1 less letter is cheaper to print in bulk than the alternative ... meaning that Americans did that to ultimately save pennies on the dollar, because we're just that cheap.

Sounds like an urban legend to me...  (I've actually hand set type and printed using a hand press).  We're only talking a handful of words with the dropped 'u' and infinitesimal costs for both the labor or setting a single letter and it's practically impossible to express just how sub atomically small the extra cost of ink is.  (Even in the era when ink was mostly produced by hand.)  One can also take a look at the word music - commonly spelled musick in both countries...  And both countries have dropped the 'k'.  Or, we can look at glamour, where the US has retained the 'u'.

The real story is this:  In that era, spelling was not standardized and was still very much in flux.  Webster was influential in setting American spelling, and his chosen spellings came to predominate in the US.  Johnson became influential in British spelling, and his chosen spellings became predominant in the UK (and by extension, throughout the Commonwealth).  Why did they choose different spellings?   You'd have to grab a time machine (or make friends with a Time Lord) and ask them.

[Abraxus]

Well, the Halloween event is up, on the Beta Server anyway!  That along with a few other changes, including the new Willpower Power Pool choice.  I'd imagine it'll all be on the Live servers fairly soon.  Next week if I were making a bet. 😎

[Heraclea]

<Ahem>Ahem</ahem> Technically, the differences between US and UK/Commonwealth spellings are the work of Noah Webster, the fellow for whom the several Webster dictionaries are named.  English spelling itself is one of the worst systems in the world, worse even than Gaelic or French, and really only Burmese and Tibetan compete with it for being unintuitive and unwieldy.  Webster added to the lovely chaos by introducing a purely artificial difference between US and British English, without doing much to make the system more sensible or less random.    

[boggo2300]

18 hours ago, Feefa said:

Flavour (I let gesture typing decide on the spelling) was a brand new word at the time that Europeans were travelling to the New World. I don't think it was a case of anyone adding or removing the 'u', just two different decisions when the word was finally written down. 

 

I can totally believe that printing cost was a factor in that  decision though. 🙂

how then do you explain Colour?  that was a new word as well?

 

the one that gets me is spelling Cheque as check

 

one is derived from exchequer as in the financial control,  the other is derived from holding someone back, or a pattern...

[Doc_Scorpion]

5 hours ago, boggo2300 said:

the one that gets me is spelling Cheque as check

 

one is derived from exchequer as in the financial control,  the other is derived from holding someone back, or a pattern...

Truth be told, they both descend from the same source - the checked pattern used on medieval money counting tables.  That's why "exchequer" has "cheque" (check) in the middle of it.

[boggo2300]

1 hour ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

Truth be told, they both descend from the same source - the checked pattern used on medieval money counting tables.  That's why "exchequer" has "cheque" (check) in the middle of it.

I never knew that, but now I've read up,  stupid Normans and their fancy tablecloths!!