Re: Please critizise my art!

In article <36a...@news.vossnet.net>, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz
(Martin Atkins) wrote:
> 
> .----- On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:42:48 -0500, llizard posted:
[snip]
> |         |  .^%---
> |         |  <  \ I'm also very fond of criticizing.
[snip]
> |Let's see what the dictionary says...
[snip]
> |              ________________
> |            /(@)______________)
> |ha         / |critic - n.    |
> | ha ---%^^,  | one who passes|
> |   ha /   >\ | judgement     |
> |          < \|               |
> |          <  |criticize - vt |
> |        ^^|\ |_______________|
> |ejm       / \(@)______________)
> |
> |Yes, I thought it had a "z". (This is from my Collins English Dictionary
> |- Canadian Edition)
> |
> '--------------------------
> 
> There are quite a few differences between Canadian and American English and
> English English :o)
> 
> The main one is that a lot of words spelt -ise are changed to -ize.
> 
> Randomize       Randomise
> Criticize       Criticise
> 
> Dispize? (Probably not!)
.
      ha
^^^^%---  ha
 "   \ ha    Most definitely not!!  "DEspize", maybe, but never
"dIspize".


Usually I use the English rather than American spelling as well.
(Spelling colour as "color" in Html documents still comes as a shock.)

Did you see my post in which I checked in the Oxford Dictionary?

  .___                      
  |   )                                /--/|    
  |  (_)                              /__/ |_
  |                                  |   | /_/| ,
  |                                  |P-Z||**||[|
  |                              ____|   ||()||[|_,__
  |                             /    |___||__|/[|( )/|
.+.  ,^^%---                   /___________________/ |
+.+ <  __\_((/  "criticize..." |__________  ______ | |
.+.<_/-    //                  |          ||______|| |
+.+))__   //                   |        ] ||______|| |
.+.+.+.)_//                    |          ||______|| |
+.+.+.+|_\__                   |__________|________|/
ejm+.+|     | 



I think you'll have to agree that a dictionary doesn't get more English
than the Oxford.

(Or maybe you are a Cambridge Man and refuse to condone anything coming
out of Oxford.... )


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see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e"
to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
--
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/   ha ---%^^^^^^^^^^
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