Dialogue or Dialog
Dialogue or Dialog
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I have a spell checker for my Firefox browser, and it does not recognize "dialogue" as being spelled correctly. Has modern usage dropped the "ue" for economy of motion? Most online dictionaries I looked at gave both spellings almost equal weight, though it appeared that "dialog" had the majority. One site was interesting:
I almost wonder if this is a case of some formal/informal writing standard that I may not know about? I doubt it has anything to do with which side of the Big Pond you live. Which do you prefer?
I have a spell checker for my Firefox browser, and it does not recognize "dialogue" as being spelled correctly. Has modern usage dropped the "ue" for economy of motion? Most online dictionaries I looked at gave both spellings almost equal weight, though it appeared that "dialog" had the majority. One site was interesting:
Quote (Bartleby.com):
dialogue, dialog (n., v.)
The more commonly used spelling is dialogue, but dialog is a Standard variant for both noun and verb. The intransitive verb has been a recent vogue word, meaning “to converse,” but it strikes some conservatives as slangy and graceless: We dialogued for half an hour, but we got nowhere. Dialogued also smacks of the jargon of labor relations: spoke, talked, discussed, conversed, and the like would be better. The transitive verb, meaning “to put into dialogue,” is very rare.
I almost wonder if this is a case of some formal/informal writing standard that I may not know about? I doubt it has anything to do with which side of the Big Pond you live. Which do you prefer?
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As for the spelling checker, I too use the FireFox one but have it set to the English option; so on my machine dialog is flagged as incorrect.
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You get the bit that asks you which language you want to use.
e.g.:
US English or
International English
And even the 'US' bit gets lost on some products.
There's been lots of apparently educated people talking on about this stuff.
Websters or Oxford? Your choice, apparently, just so long as you don't tell users of the other dictionary that they're wrong and you're right.
As for turning nouns into verbs, there is usually no need. A word usually already exists to describe what you want with unnecessary surgery.
Bill
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Regarding turning nouns into verbs, I still shudder when I hear of films "premiering".
- Steve
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A hostage situation
Vectoring
......stuff like that.
Since you mention a particular noun that has been highjacked into a verb: when speaking on TV, there is also an apparent tendency to omit the vowel 'i'. Premiere becomes 'Premeer'
Bill
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Dialoging... set phasers to full.
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I'd vote dialogue but then I'm a Brit.
If I can use an extra letter or two, especially U, then I will!
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Maybe fallen trees shoud be cut into logues.
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Bill
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
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I also prefer "either" and "neither" to "ether" and "nether". I must have some English in me... It's not just east coast - west coast. Being on the West coast, I'm the exception.
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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Ether and nether have their own distinct meanings.
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Mike McCann
McCann Engineering