When a society frowns upon intellectual pursuits, mocks science, and does not value reason, a person dare not appear too bright. The current USA is an extreme case of this phenomenon. To avoid scorn, one must avoid showing curiousity and interest in non-trivial matters and hide competence in complicated skills. To gain favour, one must earn tard cred.
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Anonymous2010-02-14 18:01
>>18
My country is not actually the UK, though that would be the fairest guess. And your touche is odd considering that I was the one responding against a person who criticised a valid spelling in the first place. You are not telling me anything that makes it right to reject a valid spelling; in fact you are telling me something that helps shame the original complainer for rejecting a valid, more established, and currently commonly used spelling.