Hawking's speech software goes open source for disabled

[oshunluvr]

The way some Americans go on, you'd think yours was the most evil of them all!

Did you read about the congressional report on US sponsored torture released yesterday? I suspect there are many that think our government is evil - both inside and outside the US.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/wo...port.html?_r=0

[Feathers McGraw]

I suspect there are many that think our government is evil - both inside and outside the US.

Yes but isn't the government agency that snowhog works for your equivalent of HMRC (taxes etc.), or did I get the wrong end of the stick? That's the one I meant some Americans complain about so much they seem to think it's the most evil agency of them all!

[oshunluvr]

Oh, and I should have said "Inside and outside the US Government" too, lol. Don't know if the hog is an IRS agent, but I've been audited - it sucks.

[SteveRiley]

the hog is an IRS agent

You just blew my mind there.

[Snowhog]

hehe. No, I work for the Alaska Army National Guard, which is part of the Army National Guard, which is a component of the Department of the Army, which is a branch of the Department of Defence.

[Feathers McGraw]

Argh, was it all just a carefully crafted cover story?? Not sure where I got that impression from... maybe just a massive extrapolation from you helping people with tax returns and stuff like that a few times... lol!

[Snowhog]

Tax return help wasn't me. I think that's oshunluvr.

[SteveRiley]

Department of Defence.

Your spelling makes me question your allegiance.

[Snowhog]

I had it spelled 'correctly', but either the spell checker in the forum, or in Kubuntu, didn't like it and suggested that. Oh well. Go with your first choice!

[SteveRiley]

Hm. Are you set up for American or British English?

[SteveRiley]

I had it spelled 'correctly', but

Wait. You also use British style single quotes when we here Merikins use double quotes. Enjoying those crumpets with your tea?

[Feathers McGraw]

Well I'm glad I finally understand what you're on about, couldn't see any spelling mistakes and was very confused.

Great plan Webster, stick it to the Brits by changing their language in trivial and inconsistent ways!

Enjoying those crumpets with your tea?

IME there's only one kind of crumpet that Brits really like... and while it may be edible in a loose sense of the word, it doesn't go well with tea.

[oshunluvr]

Yeah, but you do have biscuits with tea! Weird...

[SteveRiley]

Great plan Webster, stick it to the Brits by changing their language in trivial and inconsistent ways!

Efficiency is hardly a synonym for trivial. We've dropped the superfluous "u" from your -our endings (neighbour, harbour), we've switched the "e" and the "r" to their rightful places to reflect how words sound (theatre, saltpetre), blasted the totally ridiculous "ue" from your -ogue endings (catalogue, homologue), purged the "a" and "o" from your fancy-schmancy ae, oe weirdness (anaemia, diarrhoea), used a sufficiently single "l" where you still prefer a double "ll," and kicked the ending "e" out of root words with an -ing suffix (ageing, routeing). These all seem like advances to me

[Snowhog]

Wait. You also use British style single quotes when we here Merikins use double quotes. Enjoying those crumpets with your tea?

Excellent Ale and hand tossed pizza I'll have you know.