Future Internet World - Your Opinions

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Geklen

in not far future internet will control the world.

OK, its "Eats Shoots And Leaves" time.

Sorry to be a pedantic asswipe, but "the internet" will never control much. I think you mean "the Internet".

"the internet" is a small collection of computers connected in a local area, say in an office building or even just two computers on your desk networking. If you mean the thing that goes all around the world, connecting millions of computers and home of (amongst other things) the world wide web, then you mean "the Internet".

[Toby]

Originally Posted by ecchi

OK, its "Eats Shoots And Leaves" time.

Sorry to be a pedantic asswipe, but "the internet" will never control much. I think you mean "the Internet".

"the internet" is a small collection of computers connected in a local area, say in an office building or even just two computers on your desk networking. If you mean the thing that goes all around the world, connecting millions of computers and home of (amongst other things) the world wide web, then you mean "the Internet".

I think you mean intranet not internet. Other than being properly capitalized because it is a name there is no difference between internet and Internet.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Toby

I think you mean intranet not internet. Other than being properly capitalized because it is a name there is no difference between internet and Internet.

"intranet" is the 'Americanisation' of "internet". I would assume this was to prevent confusion with "Internet". However the word "internet" was around before the Internet was created. The capital I was put onto the word "internet" as a name after it ceased to be a 'military only' network.

Then many years later a confused American coined the term "intranet" so he would not get Internet and internet muddled up.

Actually the last sentence is a guess, but the rest is accurate. Intranet is a new word, created long after internet and Internet were first used.

Although what you do if you want to start a sentence with "internet" is beyond me!

[Lemmy]

internet schminternet

[Toby]

Originally Posted by ecchi

"intranet" is the 'Americanisation' of "internet".

ecchi, you're not only a pedantic asswipe, but you're also full of shit.

[emmanuelle]

Originally Posted by ecchi

OK, its "Eats Shoots And Leaves" time.

Did Lynne Truss rewrite her book for each geographic audience?
Britain, Canada and the US each take a different approach to certain forms of spelling and punctuation. Confusing? You bet, though not enough to get worked up over.

Mind you, I do enjoy watching Toby get all macho like this

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Toby

ecchi, you're not only a pedantic asswipe, but you're also full of shit.

Toby you may want to take a look at the link tickler posted. You will see that AVN use "Internet" instead of "internet". You want to say are full of shit too? Or maybe you would be better looking it all up in a dictionary.

Originally Posted by emmanuelle

Did Lynne Truss rewrite her book for each geographic audience?

I only quoted her book title to point out I was about to make a linguistic point. However most books written in English but outside America get 'translated' before being published in America. Mostly this is just so that the book is in a language Americans feel 'comfortable' with. But occasionally words have different meanings (vest for example) and sometimes American and English words differences can be extreme. For example the English word for a child's eraser is 'rubber', imagine an English kid walking into a general store in America wanting six erasers and asking for "a packet of six rubbers". Also, 'fanny' means 'cunt' in England. So if you are ever on holiday in England and get a severe pain in your ass, don't tell the English doctor that you have a pain in your fanny and then wonder why he refers you to a gynaecologist (and if you are male.....).

Getting back to Lynne Truss, did you know that "Eats Shoots And Leaves" sold tremendously all over the English speaking world, except in America, where it sold badly. I think Toby just demonstrated what this leads to.