Affect vs. Effect.

Now if we could only solve the "tomato, tomahto" thing...

All I can say is good luck.....[lol]

This is chicken and egg.
I'll start this off but don't blame me for what's going to come from it.

It,s TOMAATO the British way. The only way.

This is a TOMAATO post, don't bring Potato into it.

Now Craven and I have had this out before but this time I am going to win.

Bring it on

That's playing dirty! No tomato discussion is complete without potato being tossed in!

well I can't say what effect this is going to have.

if we are going to have this we should move it...!!!!!

but here goes,

well it's like this you see,

TOMAATO

Potato

You can give me the first logical reason not to and i'll take it from there.

All those on my side, HELP

I am going up agaist "The being", I am going to need all the help I can get.

Because English spelling is already illogical enough without that kind of incongruity!

I am soo not " the being "!!!

Pharon is right! And the potato thing is irrelevant to the argument - unless bough and cough have to be pronounced the same!

bough and cough were written differently (phonetically) before people meddled with English.

Don't make me post the history of English spelling again!

Do you or do you not have it within your power to do as you please with this site, given of course the restrictions?

If so then in this case that makes you the being and me the underdog.

I't wont be the first time an underdog has one.

I'd never do that unless I wanted to have an empty site with only myself as a participant.

O.K so hi dlowan
thanks for the beckup it's nice to know that there are still people out there that know how to speak English.

And I fully agree with you on the bough and cough thing.

And Cray, everthing was written differentely before we medled with it. there was no English as such.

Craven,
Granted but I know that you are well prepared for this as we have done it before..
lol

so what I mean to say is that I am not prepared but am willing to go at it again to try and knock some sense into you.

Double lol

I'm having a huge argument with dlowan about this on IM. My bottom line is:

Cultural heritage is nice, both pronunciations are correct. But one makes more sense to those who want to learn.

That's nice when it works out for you....auh... but you have a point.

that btw doesnt change anything.

But English is so so so illogical in so so so many areas; it's a nigh-on impossible task to clear up all of those inconsistencies, so why not embrace its glorious illogic?

LOL Ok I concede that I like British pronunciation, is that ok? How about I argue that it sjould be potahto and we call it even?

I like the ahh. What I don't like is incongruity.

edit:

sozobe,

Because I hate the fact that all languages evolved in such a haphazard way and for such stupid reasons. For e.g.: the reason deb's examples (the "ough" words) are spelled the way they are is because Dutch printers added letters for line justification and to amke more money (they were paid per letter).


Since I am stuck with the job of explaining it I recognize that we are better off without such illogical nuances.