Sheet of grey

[Bannanachair]

It's in the distance
This thick tarp of joy
It makes little sense
it's stupid: "tarp of joy"

It's a dumb metaphor
It's really fucking stupid
It's something that I truly abhor
It's indeed rather ill-suited

You also misspelt the title
It's spelt "grey", not "gray"
But the Webster dictionary is stupid
Because he intentionally changed the spellings of words for nationalism
And I've stopped caring about rhymes or syllables and stuff like that because Noah Webster literally changed the way that Americans spell words due to his nationalistic ideals. He wanted to distinguish America from the UK and as such prescribed spellings that he himself made up. It's like if I created a new country, the Bannanachair Kingdom, and ordered everyone to spell "country" as "cuntry" because it's more phonetic, and branded everyone who spelt it correctly as unpatriotic.

[Pruz]

You see, it wasn’t supposed to be “tarp of joy”. I usually write a lot of poetry on my phone and it spellchecks everything I type.

Apparently grey and gray are the same?

[Bannanachair]

Feb 23, 2018 23:51:27 GMT -4 Pruz said:

You see, it wasn’t supposed to be “tarp of joy”. I usually write a lot of poetry on my phone and it spellchecks everything I type.

Apparently grey and gray are the same?

"Grey" is the correct spelling. "Gray" is the stupid American spelling.

[Pruz]

I’m American. I don’t think I did anything incorrect.

[Bannanachair]

Feb 24, 2018 0:10:48 GMT -4 Pruz said:

I’m American. I don’t think I did anything incorrect.

See the thing that I wrote about how Webster ignored established conventions in the name of nationalism.

[Duck14]

Why is this a separate thread?

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I always spell it grey, but gray is also widely accepted by now, and even if it was a trend started stupidly, it's here now and it's here to stay. I'm not saying switch to gray or anything, but maybe just accept that it's become an accepted way to spell it instead of telling everybody who spells it with an "a" that they're wrong. It's not their fault they learned to spell it that way, and it's not their teachers' fault that the cirriculum was that way, and it's such a small difference that it's not really worth hating.

You can still hate the Webster guy, but leave everyone else alone. They're not doing anything wrong by spelling it that way.