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Post by Claire on Mar 25, 2009 10:36:47 GMT -5
Geez, wind, the only people who could possibly be offended are the ones who only seem to post in order to make rude comments to people. I tend to switch back and forth between spellings too, having lived and studied in both the US and Canada. I'm not sure why this could possibly be such an issue to any decent human being. Who gives a $%#@?
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Post by faith on Mar 25, 2009 13:07:47 GMT -5
Oh, Wind... I am thinkin' that you aren't the one that needs to apologize.
The majority of us are smart enough to read and fully understand words written either way. I did say the "majority" of us.
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Mar 25, 2009 13:24:33 GMT -5
Oh, come on! You can't fool me, Windy. Obviously you are one of those incredibly dangerous Canadian/British/Australian/New Zealander (ite? ian?) Spies! Ha! You sly thing, you. I am calling the FBI right now! Or the CIA... or... the IRS! By George. *****************************************
Just out of curiosity... is America the only English speaking nation that uses the spellings we do? Is that another one of those rebellion things? A colonial... I am pissed at you so I will not even use your spellings! Take that! ...kind of thing.
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Post by amy on Mar 25, 2009 13:50:37 GMT -5
I'm a dirty American, so I always (mis)spell everything the American way.
It doesn't bother me to see the British spellings, but my personal bias has been that I've known a few people who did it to be pretentious. I hate that. If you spell it that way because it's what is natural to you, then whatever. But I can't stand pretension.
(On that note: I'm sure nobody will know what I'm talking about, but one thing in the medical field that drives me NUTS is when physicians pronounce the word centimeter as "sontimeter".)
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Post by Chan on Mar 25, 2009 16:31:44 GMT -5
A colonial... I am so pissed at you that I will not even use your spellings! Take that! I laughed. It doesn't bother me to see the British spellings, but my personal bias has been that I've known a few people who did it to be pretentious. I hate that. If you spell it that way because it's what is natural to you, then whatever. But I can't stand pretension. Ditto 100% Also, Amy, maybe you can answer this one for me (or anyone else in the medical field) - I had an anatomy teacher in high school who swore that the p in apnea was actually silent like in pneumonia, but I've never come across another person who doesn't pronounce the p. Which way is actually correct or most frequently used in a professional medical setting?
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Post by Pony on Mar 25, 2009 18:20:02 GMT -5
Sorry for following a different path, but 'apnea' caught my attention since I've started having some of it near morning, which has been driving me crazy. Read below...I didn't realize it's more common in SCIs!!
Sleep apnea is significantly more common in persons with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), especially those with tetraplegia (paralysis of both arms and both legs), among whom an estimated 25% to 40% have the disorder. A number of factors may contribute to this high prevalence. Obesity is relatively common in this population, and individuals with SCI are predominantly males. Both of these are known risk factors for sleep apnea in the general population.
Weakness of respiratory muscles may contribute to the problem, especially in persons with tetraplegia, because the muscles cannot easily interrupt episodes of apnea. The use of sedating antispasticity medications such as baclofen is also considered a potential risk factor because these drugs are known to slow down the breathing apparatus.
Several additional factors may predispose the SCI population to sleep apnea. The supine (lying on one's back) sleeping position is known to markedly increase the rate of obstructive breathing episodes in the non-SCI population. Many individuals with SCI are unable to change position while in bed, which may result in increased time spent in the supine position.
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Post by amy on Mar 25, 2009 19:39:24 GMT -5
Also, Amy, maybe you can answer this one for me (or anyone else in the medical field) - I had an anatomy teacher in high school who swore that the p in apnea was actually silent like in pneumonia, but I've never come across another person who doesn't pronounce the p. Which way is actually correct or most frequently used in a professional medical setting? No, I have NEVER heard it pronounced with the P being silent. And I use that word a lot. But maybe there's some other country where it's pronounced differently. Any other medical questions?
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Mar 25, 2009 19:51:49 GMT -5
Lol, yeah, I have this rash... I've heard that sontimeter business and I honestly thought it was one of those things that people around here just mispronounce because that's the way they always heard it said (like pronouncing "gelding" as "gilding") . But now that I think about it, she was in the medical field for a long time. I don't like it, either.
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Post by Triassic on Mar 25, 2009 20:15:03 GMT -5
pronunciation/mispronunciation is an excellant clue as to the speakers level of formal education. i was watching this guy's vids on youtube recently; he obviously was exremely well-read and erudite, very, very intelligent and a real born scholar of his subject. but the fact that he kept mispronouncing certain words made me think it unlikely that he had much if any college or university.
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Post by amy on Mar 25, 2009 23:38:37 GMT -5
Yes, actually. That same anatomy teacher also told us that, visually, babies see upside for the first few months of life. I always found this hard to believe... Wow, I definitely never heard that one. I think only babies know the truth...
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Post by roger888 on Mar 26, 2009 2:17:37 GMT -5
Also, Amy, maybe you can answer this one for me (or anyone else in the medical field) - I had an anatomy teacher in high school who swore that the p in apnea was actually silent like in pneumonia, but I've never come across another person who doesn't pronounce the p. Which way is actually correct or most frequently used in a professional medical setting? Reminds me of an old school teacher that used to pronounce "dangerous" as "dang-a-roo",like kangaroo.....from what I can remember he was quite dangerous in a senile way. Think some people just have a very individual way of speaking or saying certain words that they refuse to give up no matter how strange they might sound.
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Post by roger888 on Mar 26, 2009 2:26:43 GMT -5
Windrider, why do you, as an American, consciously choose to spell things the British/Australian way? I was exposed to both ways to spell English words at a young age, and I tend to interchange the spellings without conscious thought; hope I don't offend anyone...I figure if I get my point accross clearly enough, the spelling syntax doesn't really matter all too much. I'm pleased you use the English spelling of words because I have never been to America & I fell asleep during the American language lesson at school ;D Seriously,does it really matter what language you use?If someone from Italy,for example,wanted to post a story on here,but can only write effectively in Italian then there's nothing wrong in posting that language.Better that than not contributing at all.We all know how to use an online translator.
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