Showing posts with label stupidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stupidity. Show all posts

04 March 2007

Spell Right for Socialism

You may have seen on the news, on the interweb or in the Guardian articles about Conservapedia The "conservative" alternative to Wikipedia.
"Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American."
Wikipedia apparently has far too much liberal bias, for instance using BCE and CE instead of BC/AD or using British spellings. Spelling colour with a u instead of without one appears to be a a dangerous sign of being an evil atheist lefty anti American to the founders of Conservapedia. They only have 6 commandments for posting and one of those is not to use British spellings and if you do so repeatedly you are likely to get blocked from contributing to the site. As Language Log, the blog where I first heard about this stupidity, points out it's a very draconian over reaction to variety.

My View

To equate British spelling with a Liberal/Anti Christian bias is moronic; as one commenter on a Language Log's associated blog said "If I were as paranoid as these guys, I’d assume that Conservapedia was an atheist plot to discredit Christianity." I'm guessing here but it's probably a safe bet that the people behind this have a lot of time for the King James Version of the Bible, John Knox, Charles Wesley's hymns (if they agree with hymns that is), Paradise Lost, John Bunyan and Charles Spurgeon. All of whom/which are written/wrote in various forms of BRITISH ENGLISH.