Conformity - Analog or Analogue

[mvallevand]

Should this have been posted in the common documentation forum or will it be analog in NPVR and analogue in GBPVR?

Martin

[ACTCMS]

it does seem there's a lot of confusion about those two words; Wiktionary has it the way ACTCMS described, but Merriam-Webster has it exactly the opposite, as does dictionary.reference.com. Wiktionary is exactly as trust-worthy as Wikipedia, so discounting their definition it appears "Analog" is the only spelling that can be used as an adjective as in "analog television" or "analog data".

Oxford suggests that either spelling can be used as a noun or an adjective - the only difference is that analogue is English and analog is US

edit: look, it's post 2147 for me... let's all breath a sigh of relief that Rush didn't have an album or song titled "2147".

They did have a song that used the word "the" though... :p

[steeb]

Should this have been posted in the common documentation forum or will it be analog in NPVR and analogue in GBPVR?

Martin

Martin, I hope I posted this in the NPVR documentation sub forum. I'm not sure about anyone else but I will no longer be making any changes to the GBPVR documentation. That for me now is legacy stuff.

If 'analogue' is in GBPVR documentation long may it rest in peace. But unless Sub changes his mind....... if anyone writes analogue in NPVR documentation I may just spot it and change it to analog. Not that I would want to, I would go for analogue. But no polls! I just like conformity

Steeb

[steeb]

Oxford suggests that either spelling can be used as a noun or an adjective - the only difference is that analogue is English and analog is US

Yes and though it may be naughty of me every time I write Media Centre in doccy stuff I write that not Media Center. This is why I would have thought analogue not analog. But.... I heard a quote the other day

went something like

'you think you're one of the fishes in the big pond, face it, you're not even a fish'

Steeb

[ACTCMS]

'you think you're one of the fishes in the big pond, face it, you're not even a fish'

lol

[martint123]

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marks four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

I feel really sorry for those that do not have English as a first language !

[imilne]

I feel really sorry for those that do not have English as a first language !

It's bad enough for those of us who do have it as our first language

A few other nPVR/computer related terms: programme/program, dialogue/dialog, colour/color...

[steeb]

Dear all,

it rears its ugly head again

favorite or favourite?

I would like to nail this. I thought NZ speak was UK English, so was surprised when Sub said analog not analogue.

I would have gone analogue, Sub does analog. Favorite would never have entered into my dictionary but if going with US spelling then favorite it is!

Steeb

[gEd]

Steeb.

I think an author should stick to their own version of English and not try and write in US English as a) you won't be very good at it and b) where do you drawn the line, will you start using Z's instead of S's?

If Sub is desperate for the web page to be written in US English (I doubt it), then once the pages are done, you can get someone else to go proof read and Americanse them.

[steeb]

Steeb.

I think an author should stick to their own version of English and not try and write in US English as a) you won't be very good at it and b) where do you drawn the line, will you start using Z's instead of S's?

If Sub is desperate for the web page to be written in US English (I doubt it), then once the pages are done, you can get someone else to go proof read and Americanse them.

Oh wise wise words. I think what unbalanced me was when Sub went for analog not analogue, since that I became all unfuddled! But it is a querysome state. Analog/analogue. Npvr/nPVR I'm just doing my best to doccy this stuff but where is the agreement

Steeb