User talk:Iamajpeg

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Hello, I cannot move humour with my account age, so I didn't. I changed the spellings in the article on purpose. See the talk page. Scepia 01:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

That was not the point. I cannot move the page on my rather new account, so I did not. Regarding the spellings, it is not Wikipedia's fault that we want standardized, correct spellings. There is nothing wrong with intelligent conversation over a controversial matter. To be honest, if you were creating a new language, would you write the word 'honor' or 'honour'? The former, of course. That is my point. Sometimes majority is not the best option. Scepia 21:01, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I understand what you mean about it making more sense to you with a u, but think about it this way: the u is silent. Silent letters tend to make words more confusing. Think of knife. If you were an alien that had to learn english, you would likely say kuh-ny-ff rather than ny-ff. This is the same with humo(u)r. An alien would more likely be confused by the u in humor - the u is silent, so why should it be there? I hope you realize that my biggest goal is spelling reform, which I believe could make huge positive changes to language. Scepia 01:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, spelling it humer would make more sense, but the only two real options we have are humor and humour. Of the two, the former makes more sense phonetically and therefore should be used. The only way we can get to humer is by gradually reforming the spellings such that people can adapt and be able to change successfully. I still must point out the the added 'u' doesn't make sense, phonetically at least - it was changed by an American spelling reformer, who has made other "positive" changes like color, etc. that have helped American English. Regarding standardization (or standardisation, what a contradiction!), if you look at a chart for American vs. British English, (see below,) the former is more common. This is quite reason enough for standard spellings where the page is neutral at least. You must also remember that having humour for a page title and say, false humor for another is rather silly and they should all be phonetically standardized. American English is of course widely accepted, it is arguably the standard. Wikipedia is all about making things correct, and is phoneticism not correct? Scepia 21:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

As of 1997, for native speakers Image:English_dialects1997.png

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