When DVDRHelp.com Gets New Colors...

[tgpo]

I'll Look At Them And Have To See How They Look

[indolikaa]

I'd like to see a midget clown colour scheme myself...

[Bodyslide]

I would like to see an Alien Color Scheme, with different version of Dark Green...

[Rookie64]

I only come here to see what color lordsmurf is today :P 8)

[Craig Tucker]

I will be leaving it the way it is. Would not feel like home with different colours

[redwudz]

It's good to have options.

[jimmalenko]

How many posters are gonna look stupid when someone trawls through the old threads and sees posts like "<--- over there in the green section" ???

[indolikaa]

How many posters are gonna look stupid when someone trawls through the old threads and sees posts like "<--- over there in the green section" ???

Yeah, right! Like anybody reads the stuff over there anymore.


"I want to make a million dollars and not lift a single bloody finger doing it. Can somebody please walk me through it, step by step, and show me an idiot-proof way to do it? TIA!"

[jimmalenko]

"I want to make a million dollars and not lift a single bloody finger doing it. Can somebody please walk me through it, step by step, and show me an idiot-proof way to do it? TIA!"

I can. <-- Over there, in the currently green (but soon to be possibly blue, red, or cyan depending on your color preferences) section.

[Roderz]

why can't anybody spell Colour correctly

[Hardcoreruss]

why can't anybody spell Colour correctly

Exactly, damn yanks

[Will Hay]

why can't anybody spell Colour correctly

Good lad!
Will

[indolikaa]

Y'all and your bloody ******* colour...

[paulw]

Only the British could add letters to words or reverse them around to make english spelling hard..

[Will Hay]

Only the British could add letters to words or reverse them around to make english spelling hard..

Cheeky bleeder, if it wasn't for us you wouldn't be speaking at all
Ever figured why the English language is called 'English'?
Will

[Roderz]

Mmmm oops, what have I started now

Well it looks like both are correct spellings acording to this......

In terms of other spellings, some people may be surprised to find out that some American spellings actually follow an older pattern of British spelling. For example, the traditional British spelling for words such as 'realize' has been the "ize" form, the "ise" variation only gaining currency and preference in the past couple of centuries (My recent Oxford dictionary still clings to the -ize spellings, the -ise forms being strangely absent even as variations). Similarly, for "-our" words, much older English commonly spelled them with the '-or" appropriate to their old French (ultimately) Latin origins. For example, Old French spelled "color", from which English got its word. The French later changed those spellings to -eur, to better reflect the change in pronunciation. While I'm no historian, it's reasonable to presume English writers picked up on this development, and -our became a fashionable variant, now usually preferred in British spelling (altho some words, like 'neighbour" did not come from French and some Latinate words like 'factor" receive no "u' in British spelling).

I always thought the yanks droped the 'u' because the kids could never remember to put it there when being taught, so the powers that be said RIGHT NO MORE 'u'

[Roderz]

The French later changed those spellings to -eur

Wait LOOK its the bloody French , them It's all there fault
Let go to war wiv'em (again)
Whats the score?

[Cobra]

Only the British could add letters to words or reverse them around to make english spelling hard..

We invented the language - we can do what the hell we like! :P

Cobra

[The village idiot]

Only the British could add letters to words or reverse them around to make english spelling hard..

We invented the language - we can do what the hell we like! :P

Cobra

Stolen from bits of Latin, German, French, Greek .....

A jumbled up mish-mash, and now we are stuck with it

[tompika]

"I thought this country spawned the ******* language
and so far nobody seems to speak it"

[vhelp]

Hay guys.

I will be leaving it the way it is. Would not feel like home with different colours

Ditto that. I feel the same way. I may try out the colors at first, maybe.

But I'll most likely stick to the script, and use the "original" colors too, for nostalgic
reasons :P
-vhelp

[indolikaa]

"I thought this country spawned the ******* language
and so far nobody seems to speak it"

EXCELLENT!

Always good to see Snatch used as an example during any discussion.

Bravo!

[paulw]

Just as a side thing on English.

This may interest you.

So, You Think It's Easy to Learn English???


We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
This was a good time to present the present.
(This last could mean "gift" or "era of time.")
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in my clothes I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?


or even worse...!!!


You may have noticed the increased number of notices for you to
notice. We notice that some of our notices have been noticed.
On the other hand, some of our notices have not been noticed.
This is very noticeable. It is noticed that the responses to
the notices have been noticeably unnoticeable. This notice is
to remind you to notice the notices and respond to the Notices
because we do not want the noticed to go unnoticed.

[eats**t&die]

I don't come here for the colours... But I changed it to blue anyway, I think it looks rather good. Better than that Classic browny colour, That was so 70s.
On another note... I just got a workshop/restoration maual for my mini, which I got from the UK over ebay. At the start of the manaul there is a whole page titled "Use of English" it says the following:
"As this book has been written in England, it uses the appropriate English component names, phrases, and spelling. Some of these differ from those used in America. Normally, these cause no difficulty, but to make sure, a glossary is printed below."
The list in the book is pretty long so I won't quote them all but it basically says things like:
English / American
Tyre / Tire
Carburettor / Carburetor
Aerial / Antenna
Boot / Trunk
Bonnet / Hood
Spanner / Wrench
Petrol / Gas
Sump / Oil Pan
Windscreen / Windshield
Bulkhead / Firewall
Vice / Vise
Accelerator / Gas Pedal
etc etc... The list goes on and on, I just listed a few. These examples are only relating to the topic of cars, so it makes you realise how the way we talk is so similar yet so different at the same time. If you know what I mean.

[Capmaster]

The English invented English, but it took the Americans to refine it to it's present glorious state:

"Waddup, I go medieval on yo mufkin ass, beeyatch. Word up G playa."

Our English purist ancestors' coffins must sound something like the Tin Man beating off inside an 80-gallon drum