likethebeer

I had a similar situation today. I had to "translate" a document in to Canadian English.

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ha ha ha ha !

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I'm not kidding. It was ridiculous.

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How does one do that? It took me years to become comfortable w/the Queen's English. Even then I think their "z"s and "s"s are weird.

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I rely on my Canadian education, I guess.

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What was the nature of the translation?
[goes out to smoke... nothing personal]

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It was a self-paced training document for a CRM. I had to "spell it" in Canadian English.
I know for a fact that Canadians get uppity if they get a doc in American English.

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Oh, ok. I thought you were speaking Canadian English. And being a US citizen, I can only fall back on SCTV and think that means a lot of "eh"s in there.

What skills you have. Being International and all.

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As international as the IHOP.

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Well, your upbringing, maybe. Ok. I think you hit the religious topics pretty often, though. See, I don't have to do that, because I'm from a very liberal Christian tradition (United Church of Christ-Congregational) Our god is a loving god, so the rules never were really so important, so I don't think about that stuff so often.

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"I think you hit the religious topics pretty often, though"

Really? I'm sorry. I know you're not asking me to apologize, but I'm sorry you have to read me musing about this stuff. How annoying.

I don't know the United CHurch of Christ--Congregational. Anything that has Christ in the title just makes me think evangelical. Sorry!

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No, that's ok. It doesn't bother me, and it could just be my perception. I think it's that tricky bit where you want to be more spiritual, but are scared off from things that feel churchy to you. You're figuring things out for yourself, and that's cool.

UCC is very liberal. I guess a commercial they wanted to run was banned by CBS and NBC for being too friendly to the gay folk:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/01/news/fortune500/jesus_ad_ban/

I never heard a word about hell or people who were going there when I was a kid in church. Everybody's welcome, and you don't have to be one of us to take communion. I don't know too much definate about the belief side, as this was my childhood church, and not the one they tried to confirm me in.

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What scares me off is the feeling of clinging to something safe. Or just running to something while telling myself, "I really belong! These people get me!" when they don't know me at all. Well, and I've come to realize I'm not Christian any more.

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I guess I have pretty low expectations of church. I don't generally go there for spirituality (I can do that outside), although I guess the stained glass can be a little inspiring. When I go to church, I go to be part of the community, and to sing songs.

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waning-estrogen.livejournal.com

oh - that's that other church I linked to a week or so ago - where I have a seattle friend who is the church secretary or admin assistant. it sounds interesting, and yes, maybe even okay.

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Oh, yeah, I remember you mentioning her.

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waning-estrogen.livejournal.com

they have a church here in vancouver, too.
it's an unusual building.
might be up your alley

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I find it all fascinating. Maybe it's self-serving, but I don't think that any amount of talking about anything should be considered "boring" if it's geniune stuff that concerns you and things that are on your mind.

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