Perfonnally, I's ftill uzing 1650s fpelingf and conbenfionf. Then waf non juftificating of the fschangef put fourth in modernity.

Fun fact: Because Johnson's English Dictionary didn't use the same spelling conventions as the Oxford (if it did, you'd still spell shoes schoose), many American spellings were standardized roughly 80 years before their English counterparts.

Okay, someone please translate the first paragraph. My universal translator is broken, lol... All I got was, "Personally, I'm still using 1650's spelling and [...]. Then [...] [...] (justifying?) of the change put forth in (modernity?)

Cool fun fact, btw.

'Meemaw' and 'peepaw' are also apparently considered appropriate substitutions for 'grandma' and 'grandpa' in this area. I have no clue what the etymology behind those particular terms might be.

Personally, I'm still using 1650's spelling and conventions. There was no justification for the changes put forth in the modern era.

The long lower-case "s" did look like a lower-case "f" without the crossbar and with a descender. It was still sounded as "ss", but it was only used in the initial and medial positions. The short lower-case "s" we're used to is what they used in the final position. So you should have said"fpelins and conbenfions", for example.

There was a cursive long "s", too. It looked like a cursive lower-case "f", but the bottom loop looped back toward the start of the line. It looked sort of like a figure eight. Sort of.

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Seriously, though, the game is based in the US, so it's only reasonable to expect US spelling. If I was playing a UK based game, I'd expect UK spelling.

Awe, you ruined it. You didn't give someone else a chance to try and translate it.

Jerry Springer style dialects have so many subtle nuances of kicks, punches, eye gouges, scratching and hair pulling that the written form can be quite confusing.

Indeed. It is equally as difficult to articulate chair-throwing and shirt-ripping.

This chair-throwing and shirt-ripping could be from the Kirk days. I am starting to think that he had one extra green coloured ripped shirt in his wardrobe.

Realize, bluecat, that Star Trek was an American made TV series and series of films and uses American spellings and just deal with it. This isn't Dr. Who Online is it? Okay then.

Seriously, man, there are much bigger things to worry about right now.