Comment by kurtis_reed
5 days ago
"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."
5 days ago
"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."
? I just think british spelling looks better and am a whore for internationalism
Oxford spelling, en-GB-oxendict, is a nice halfway house - it uses the same -ize spellings (where etymologically correct) as American English, but doesn't have the simplifications (eg. colour->color).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
It's often preferred by academic journals, which might be why the original commenter sees it as "academic".
It's also the official spelling used by the United Nations.
Internalized self loathing is a thing
It's a thing, yes. It's entirely irrelevant to the topic though.