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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 66584" data-attributes="member: 18">Darkness - My experience is that the majority of English professors are rather unqualified to make that distinction. It is difficult to determine, in many cases, whether a word is the &quot;American&quot; spelling, an older British spelling, or even an incorrect spelling that appears correct.Take &quot;specialized&quot; for example. MS Word says this is the US spelling and tries to correct it. The OED says it is the older British spelling and used in the US, and if anything, more correct. Yet I've been told off by English teachers for using it...Other professors are just idiots on the matter, despite flashy diplomas and qualifications. My brother was told by an told smugly by an highly-qualified American professor that &quot;soluble&quot; does not mean &quot;solvable&quot;. In fact, it does, when one checks the OED (or even Merriam-Webster), and can be used in the same sense.Teachers and professors generally think that know more about English than they actually do.I agree on one point. It would not be acceptable to use armor and armour in the same document, or specialized and specialised, but to use specialized and armour would be.So this &quot;can't use both&quot; is, at best, an unproductive attitude...SKR's rant here is, frankly, petty, and his anger unwarranted. Stat blocks and technical descriptions are one thing, and should be as correct as possible, but the rest of the text and the game is something else.Plus &quot;Mithral&quot; is a stupid spelling, Mr Poopyhead! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 66584, member: 18"] Darkness - My experience is that the majority of English professors are rather unqualified to make that distinction. It is difficult to determine, in many cases, whether a word is the "American" spelling, an older British spelling, or even an incorrect spelling that appears correct. Take "specialized" for example. MS Word says this is the US spelling and tries to correct it. The OED says it is the older British spelling and used in the US, and if anything, more correct. Yet I've been told off by English teachers for using it... Other professors are just idiots on the matter, despite flashy diplomas and qualifications. My brother was told by an told smugly by an highly-qualified American professor that "soluble" does not mean "solvable". In fact, it does, when one checks the OED (or even Merriam-Webster), and can be used in the same sense. Teachers and professors generally think that know more about English than they actually do. I agree on one point. It would not be acceptable to use armor and armour in the same document, or specialized and specialised, but to use specialized and armour would be. So this "can't use both" is, at best, an unproductive attitude... SKR's rant here is, frankly, petty, and his anger unwarranted. Stat blocks and technical descriptions are one thing, and should be as correct as possible, but the rest of the text and the game is something else. Plus "Mithral" is a stupid spelling, Mr Poopyhead! :p [/QUOTE]

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