CWCki talk:Style

To resolve

• British English or American English? Personally, I think since a majority of trolls are American and because Chris is American, we should use Americanized spellings. However, Wikipedia uses British spellings when possible. I personally find the unnecessary vowels silly but apparently Eurofags love it.

• the possessive of Chris. Strunk & White, the Modern Language Association, and The Economist style guide (at least from a very quick website) say that it's fine to say "Chris's." The Guardian and the Chicago Book of Style disagree and then there's some whole rule about using it with soft s sound versus soft s sound. Can some English major settle this?

• also, tones of articles and that sort of thing.

--Champthom 13:15, 17 February 2009 (CET)

• Nah man, English english is da way 2 go. It makes us sound more sophisticated. ^^ And I was also wondering about the Chris's thing. I was first spelling it Chris', and leaving out the second s, but I guess that's just plain wrong. I think most people spell it Chris's here. RachmaninovDESU 18:56, 17 February 2009 (CET)

• This is really the first Wiki I've ever put any serious effort into, but really, considering the subject, I don't think it's that important which style of English we use. I've been spelling it "Chris's", mostly to avoid any conflict, but I'm reasonably sure either form is correct, so I just picked one and stuck with it. If someone wants to spell it "colour", that's fine by me, as long as no one else objects to me spelling it "color", because I'm probably going to do it that way without thinking about it. As long as we're using some sort of proper English, we should be fine, since it makes CWC's sloppy spelling and grammar stand out more. "Chris'" and "Chris's" should both be accepted, as long as we don't do "Chris;s", or simply "Chris", because that's what Chris does. Dethchemist77 00:55, 18 February 2009 (CET)