The icon is the old-fashioned octopus-meets-alligator love story (http://pics.livejournal.com/memphis86/pic/000418ba/g26). catjihad and nashville69 won't stop talking about it.
Ahaha, I wasn't trying to cause PANIC. I was mostly just trying to see how many people agreed with the pretentious asswad freshmen in my creative writing workshop that 'dialog' is the more correct term.
After I took that I had to go look it up. I guess I was wrong and they can be used interchangeably (at least according to dictionary.com). Strange. I've never thought of it as dialog before. I always connect dialog with phones for some reason.
OMG DIALOG IS THE UGLIEST FUCKING WORD ON THE PLANET. I have serious problems with it, and I honestly know that they can be used interchangeably, and as a linguist I'm supposed to be accepting of language change and variation, but that word just rubs me the wrong way and I want it wiped out of the language. AGH.
Umm not to freak out or anything. I just never got the chance to complain about it before :|
Um: catalogue is Canadian; catalog is American. And yet, somehow: dialogue is correct; dialog is a charge-per-search bibliographic database that only the old-schoolers know how to use properly and flaunt over the rest of us.
Also, Melvil Dewey (of the Decimal System) is responsible for that particular spelling reform. He lopped off the last two letters in his first name, too.
Dude, I don't think you could have constructed a more library-geek-oriented poll if you tried. Here, let me wipe my nerd splatter off your journal for you.
Per Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition), standard reference for the US book publishing industry, both are technically correct, but "dialogue" is the preferred spelling ("dialog" is the secondary variant).
Um, speaking of "let me wipe my nerd spatter off your journal"...
You know I have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER which one is right. But! I have an excuse! Because in German the word is actually Dialog. And then in English I can never tell which one is right. So I keep pretending both spellings are right. Which is kinda sad. But dialogue's the right one, right? RIGHT?
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:D
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And what is that icon?
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Also, that icon is awesome.
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And the last question. XDDD.
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OH SAMMICH.
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Except if they're all along those lines, coz then I would cry of confusion.
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Umm not to freak out or anything. I just never got the chance to complain about it before :|
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Also, Melvil Dewey (of the Decimal System) is responsible for that particular spelling reform. He lopped off the last two letters in his first name, too.
Dude, I don't think you could have constructed a more library-geek-oriented poll if you tried. Here, let me wipe my nerd splatter off your journal for you.
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Um, speaking of "let me wipe my nerd spatter off your journal"...
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