- Joined
- Feb 28, 2013
He just does it to get under people's skins. He cannot be so stupid as to think that "o" is a picture of a ball, can he? Otherwise every pie-o and cake-o in the bakery would have a useless "o" somewhere in its spelling because pies and many cakes are round. Every hill fort, every well, every curled-up pillbug and hedgehog, all the many parts of nature and human construction that are round would have to be spelled with an o, which doesn't even make the same sound as the a in "ball" in all American English dialects. So not only is he ethnocentric about his language, he doesn't even realize not everyone speaks it like he does! I guess the distinction between "cot" and "caught" is obliterated in Floridian? Would he write "I was cot stealing a photograph of jazz musicians because I thought it was too expensive"?