25 Feb 2015, 23:40#83
Mozart, the film is set in America, about an American incident....of course the Americanised version would be used in the title. I don't see your point here ?
MOMozart
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26 Feb 2015, 00:06#84
It's not the American version, both spellings are in use. The Director and prime mover is British. He apparently had no qualms with his first film going out with the title "Imposter". Nor did the British critics or South African born critic Guy Lodge who wrote the review I read. Attacking a totally acceptable, in use, spelling of a word on a rugby site smacks of desperation.
"It's irresistible material for any movie – non-fiction or otherwise – and it's easy to see why Layton, a young, London-born documentarian previously best known for the UK television series “Banged Up Abroad,” was drawn to it for his first feature film. Layton first encountered the story by chance, while flipping through a magazine at a friend's house in Spain; he knew he wanted to do something with it, but didn't quite know what."
26 Feb 2015, 00:14#85
We do not use that spelling. If I had used that at school or university, it would not have been accepted, like humor, Timor, harbour etc. The only time those spellings are acceptable is when referring to a situation, Pearl Harbor, a quote or if one was using a situation, such as this one. It happened in the U.S., this is how he would have been referred to in your Press and it is perfectly obvious. You are, yet again, simply trying to point score. It doesn't wash. Arguing for arguments sake is pointless. And we will not all adopt the Americanised misspelling of words to suit the U.S.As for this chap being best known for a series like that !!!!! Well, amazing credentials. I am glad he has broken free from that dross.
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
26 Feb 2015, 04:40#88
It gets better, here's a book by British author Mark Dawson.....
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
26 Feb 2015, 06:31#94
Well I think that just about does it......that's all folks!
RORooinek
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RORooinekCaptain18,117 posts
26 Feb 2015, 07:17#95
Whew, talk about defensive! The foppish old fool has been pretty busy while I was asleep!
None of the bluster above changes the fact that the word "imposter" does not appear in the Chambers English dictionary. It is not an English word.
Next Moffie will be demanding we accept that the word "to" can also be spelt "too" in the sentence "who are we too believe?"
LMAO!
GEgeneraltit
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26 Feb 2015, 07:38#96
English has not been spoken in America for years...lolz
http://youtu.be/EAYUuspQ6BY
BEBeeno1
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BEBeeno1Captain40,032 posts
26 Feb 2015, 08:30#98
I would say its game set and match.
DBDbDraad
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26 Feb 2015, 08:44#99
Moz, my " Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary" 6th edition, only lists "impostor". I know it's a bit dated, but not that old. I would have spelled it with an "e" too, but thanks to this thread I won't forget the proper spelling ever again. Thanks guys!
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26 Feb 2015, 09:05#100
I have a Chambers and an Oxford dictionary at home and neither one lists the word "imposter" as a word or as an alternative to "impostor" . . . but here's this idiot (and an American idiot no less . . . an American idiot who cannot spell a 2-letter word like "to") who has found a website saying the Yank Merriam-Webster dictionary carries more weight than Chambers.
LMAO!
Let this pompous old fool carry on making it his life's mission to prove himself right on this one while his Alpha Gimp Baboon-ou cheers him on. It's hilarious. Talk about obsessed!
"Imposter" is not an English word. It's more like an . . . ummm . . . "impostor"!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha!
26 Feb 2015, 10:59#101
Give up Rooinek, you're becoming an embarrassment to yourself and the rest of us.Anyone who is stupid enough to think Ole Cruz was genuine shouldn't be commenting on the English language, let alone lecturing people about it.....Cheers from the "Wastelands"!
DBDbDraad
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DBDbDraadCaptain26,388 posts
26 Feb 2015, 16:13#104
Moz, it is obvious that "imposter" has become acceptable over the last decade or so. My Oxford was published in 2000.I understand the context of your argument and have no problem with it, but grammar and spelling arguments seems such a waste of time. Funny though, my Google spellchecker also have a problem with that way of spelling it.
DBDbDraad
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DBDbDraadCaptain26,388 posts
26 Feb 2015, 17:53#106
I take enough flack not to leave the door too open for the grammar nazzies as well. And it doesn't always work either.
26 Feb 2015, 22:15#107
Right, I have to apologise for my iPad going crazy last night and coming up with the word Timor and my spelling of harbour...which we do use.....not the stupid Americanised, drop a few vowels when we feel like it and speak phonetically...words such as Harbor.
I also could not reply earlier as I have been busy today having tests, so I apologise for the delay in my response.
Impostor is the word used, and was the only one given in my Dictionaries, as it comes from the Latin. As you should be aware, many words have their origins from this source and we use them to this day.The word imposter was a mangled version of the French imposteur and became fashionable for a time, thus appearing in certain works of Literature but quickly fell out of favour and didn't ever really reach the usage of the common man.
As with many words used in the New World countries, they became a mangled version of many languages or just the way those who emigrated there spoke English phonetically. Which is why we have American English today.And you should know, Mozart, that words will get placed into a Dictionary simply because they are now used by many people...like Selfie. It doesn't mean a thing. It just means a word is used so much it can even supercede the correct usage or spelling of the correct word. And that happens more and more now that Google/Apple and Microsoft are ruling the world.
Some of us that actually speak the language of our birth, and of our forebears, will continue to do so. No matter whatever anyone else has to say about the matter.
And while we're about it...we won't be " reaching out or going forward ", to name but two ridiculously overused Americanisms. Unless we happen to be actually doing either of those things.
MOMozart
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26 Feb 2015, 23:50#108
To be honest I generally prefer the traditional English spelling....harbour vs harbor etc. And I hate new words like normalcy, now used liberally on both sides of the Atlantic, when a perfectly elegant word like normality is available.
Imposter, however, looks better to the eye than impostor. Being in the States you have to be somewhat flexible about all this, or give the appearance that you don't know how to spell over here.
Still, if it appears in the Oxford dictionary it can hardly be called a spelling error can it? Maybe just a lapse in taste.
