Mad Sweeney - I didn't say the one was superior to the other at all. What point I was making was that American English and European English have enough differences to irritate a European (or vice versa). I don't think it was 'arrogant' at all nor should you be attributing arrogance to me. The small things like colour/color... I didn't say one was 'better' than the other just that we are more accustomed to the one. As for needing a 'u', I think the question should be: why did the Americans remove the 'u' in the first place? Was it too difficult to spell?
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WT language
by KingAgag inthe wts, being american, prints its english material in american english.
i know some people might trash me here but for a european i found it frustrating.
color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap!
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by KingAgag inthe wts, being american, prints its english material in american english.
i know some people might trash me here but for a european i found it frustrating.
color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap!
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Wobble - thanks for your comment but I didn't understand something. God is an Englishman? What do you mean by that?! I don't believe in God at all, but claiming he is English (nor am I English) just seems a bit weird.
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by KingAgag inthe wts, being american, prints its english material in american english.
i know some people might trash me here but for a european i found it frustrating.
color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap!
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Dssynergy - I get your point, and as I said it was just a personal irritation. On the other hand, if I read a fiction book by an American author about a family living in the UK and the dialogue had them saying 'faucet' instead of 'tap', I would not consider it a good book because I wouldn't be able to really 'believe' the story. It wouldn't be right. Non fiction I try to be a little less frustrated.
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by KingAgag inthe wts, being american, prints its english material in american english.
i know some people might trash me here but for a european i found it frustrating.
color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap!
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Teel - yes, I do, as I said, give slack to those who speak English as a second language. Nicolau - my lack of paragraphs comes from posting on my phone which doesn't keep my formatting on this forum (I don't know why).
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by KingAgag inthe wts, being american, prints its english material in american english.
i know some people might trash me here but for a european i found it frustrating.
color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap!
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And ironically I apologise if there are typos and errors in my posts, I am not an expert :-p
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by KingAgag inthe wts, being american, prints its english material in american english.
i know some people might trash me here but for a european i found it frustrating.
color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap!
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The WTS, being American, prints its English material in American English. I know some people might trash me here but for a European I found it frustrating. Color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap! When I was very young I used to wish they'd stop making abstract language translations and make a 'proper' English version!! Now I couldn't care less about the WT - its all crap no matter what language it is in but 'chat' text annoys me! I read some threads here on JWN and end up cringing at some comments because they use "they're" instead of "their" or make simple spelling mistakes like "definAtely" (it's an "I" people) or "feal" instead of "feel", "collage" instead of "college." I understand some people don't speak English as their first language, some are uneducated etc - its just something that irritates me personally sometimes. Thoughts, comments? Feel free to rip me apart.
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Creation books
by KingAgag indoes anyone have the two creation books (life how did it get here, and is there a creator who cares...) available as pdf's please?
having a nice discussion via email and i could use an electronic version of the book while trying to show the blatant misquotes and lies etc.
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Wow, thanks for all the GREAT links, especially the downloads. I shall be doing a lot of downloading tonight when I get home!
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by KingAgag indoes anyone have the two creation books (life how did it get here, and is there a creator who cares...) available as pdf's please?
having a nice discussion via email and i could use an electronic version of the book while trying to show the blatant misquotes and lies etc.
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I think my other half (still a JW) might have it somewhere. I'll fish it out. I don't suppose the CDROM has the pictures in it too?
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by KingAgag indoes anyone have the two creation books (life how did it get here, and is there a creator who cares...) available as pdf's please?
having a nice discussion via email and i could use an electronic version of the book while trying to show the blatant misquotes and lies etc.
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Does anyone have the two Creation books (Life how did it get here, and is there a creator who cares...) available as pdf's please? Having a nice discussion via email and I could use an electronic version of the book while trying to show the blatant misquotes and lies etc.
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The little flock book..
by KingAgag ini had 2 links to the elders manual, but they are both broken.
can anyone give me a working link please?
i'll be sure to save an offline copy this time.
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Thanks possible-san, I was able to download a copy in time :-) I cant believe some of the crap in the book.
If the 'notes' were deleted regarding a child-molester, is it possible that the new elders in his new congregation would not know anything at all about his past? Is there any way at all to find out for sure about someone? I have someone in my congregation who I suspect based on what some people said from his previous congregation.