c4004matic

Has anyone popped in the license information CD in the Computer?
Definitely useless user info, but amazing that there are literally more than 400 pages of different licenses!!!
BTW, on the CD cover License is misspelled as licence. Some one skipped their spell check.

arnsbrae

That's saved me a job!

What grinds my gears is that the user manual is so riddled with safety warnings, it's close to being unusable - how ironic...

ua549

Licence (noun) is the British way to spell license.
License (verb) is the same in both UK and US English.

c4004matic

What do the Brits know? They just invented the language

joshg1001

My computer hasn't had a CD drive since 2012...

arnsbrae

Well, at the risk of being a language bore (and I am British), today's US English vocabulary has changed much less than the current British version.

British English has changed more due to proximity with European and Scandinavian countries. The American vocabulary still uses words like beholden and begotten, which sound like they came with the pilgrim fathers.

So, arguably, the US version is "purer."

Don't take my word for it - take a look at Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue."

c4004matic

One thing I do appreciate of Brit English is that it tends to be more phonetic in general. In Websters english there is less word to sound concordance. Regardless, english has become an international patois. Still, a language where such idiocy as a spelling bee is considered a sign of intelligence is annoying. In Spanish, for example, a spelling bee is an oxymoron since, in the overwhelming majority of cases, if you can say the word you can spell it

ua549

There are many Spanish words that can be easily pronounced but are difficult to spell due to repeated letters. Here is one: Esternocleidooccipitomastoideos.

c4004matic

In Spanish the only words that ever require memorization are those that begin in H, in which case the H is silent (habichuela), and those which have a double LL which can the same sound as Y, although homonyms involving those 2 are rare. In fact the word you cited should be fairly simple since its a compound word that to understood clearly must be spoken precisely esterno-cleido-occipito-mastoideo. As in many medical terms language is stretched accordingly.

ua549

I have to memorize the spellings of every one of the very few (Cuban) Spanish words I use in Florida.

c4004matic

If you learn the phonetic alphabet youll be able to write essentailly every word! Unlike the english phonetics, there are no weird characters or sounds, every letter has just one. Then you will be as "advanced" as my german, which is very similar, I can read anything I just simply dont know what most of it means!
The only complication in spanish is gender and verve tenses.