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Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by robin_reala »

mrsebastian wrote: post #6
saturdaysaint wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would anyone care to explain the downvote? Did you miss the egregious misspell of "renaissance"?

As much as I'd love to spell it "renaissance", it's an American site, so I have to write in American English :) God save the Queen!

That’s the en-US for renaissance‽ You live and learn.

Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by mrsebastian »

robin_reala wrote: post #11
mrsebastian wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As much as I'd love to spell it "renaissance", it's an American site, so I have to write in American English :) God save the Queen!

That’s the en-US for renaissance‽ You live and learn.

Yeah, it matches up with how Americans pronounce it, too. British English speakers (like me) pronounce it 'ren AY sonce', while Americans pronounce it 'ren uh sonce'.

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Post by bas »

mrsebastian wrote: post #6
saturdaysaint wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would anyone care to explain the downvote? Did you miss the egregious misspell of "renaissance"?

As much as I'd love to spell it "renaissance", it's an American site, so I have to write in American English :) God save the Queen!

Is this "regional American English"? I've never seen renaissance written as "renascence" in the midwest, northeast, or California.

Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by randallsquared »

bas wrote: post #13
mrsebastian wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As much as I'd love to spell it "renaissance", it's an American site, so I have to write in American English :) God save the Queen!

Is this "regional American English"? I've never seen renaissance written as "renascence" in the midwest, northeast, or California.

Growing up in the US in the '70s and '80s, I'd never seen it this way, either, and a little googling shows that it's a very obscure variant, with fewer than 60K uses, compared to renaissance with over 13M uses. I think someone saw it mentioned as an American variant and became confused into thinking that it was a common American variant.

Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by varelse »

Probably not: my Galaxy Nexus started out promising enough with only a few annoying issues but in the 4 1/2 months I've owned it, I've watched it become almost as much of an unresponsive brick as my late Droid G1. And while we're at, they have yet to release ICS for my Samsung Galaxy 10.1. Google/Samsung/I don't really care anymore are all falling flat on their faces pretending to support these devices and that's their real downfall.

Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by ajross »

mrsebastian wrote: post #6
saturdaysaint wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would anyone care to explain the downvote? Did you miss the egregious misspell of "renaissance"?

As much as I'd love to spell it "renaissance", it's an American site, so I have to write in American English :) God save the Queen!

That's actually an archaic spelling as far as I know. Standard american English spells and pronounces it as the French loan word it is "reh-neh-ZONCE".

Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by mrsebastian »

randallsquared wrote: post #14
bas wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this "regional American English"? I've never seen renaissance written as "renascence" in the midwest, northeast, or California.

Growing up in the US in the '70s and '80s, I'd never seen it this way, either, and a little googling shows that it's a very obscure variant, with fewer than 60K uses, compared to renaissance with over 13M uses. I think someone saw it mentioned as an American variant and became confused into thinking that it was a common American variant.

Hrm, interesting.

Maybe I can go back to using the proper version, then!

Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by sbuk »

robin_reala wrote: post #11
mrsebastian wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As much as I'd love to spell it "renaissance", it's an American site, so I have to write in American English :) God save the Queen!

That’s the en-US for renaissance‽ You live and learn.

Etymologically, the word comes from the French for rebirth, which is spelled 'renaissance'. Normally, it's prudent to take a live-and-let-live approach to the development of language as that's how language evolves, but in this instance the Americanised spelling is downright barbarous and not holding with the origins or spirit of the word. In this case, I'd argue that the American spelling isn't different in the way color or aluminum are, it's just wrong.

Re: Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?

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Post by roc »

mrsebastian wrote: post #9
tdoggette wrote: post #7

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Yeah, that picture is misleading-- the two devices aren't on the same scale at all.

Yea, I was going to try and scale it accurately, but the S3 is in the foreground, so there's perspective to deal with as well -- so I decided to just leave it as-is. Maybe I should've put 'image is for illustration purpose only' at the bottom...

Perspective? That doesn't even begin to explain it. That picture looked odd to me before, but after looking at the specs it simply can not happen. That sort of arrangement could distort the apparent difference in thickness and mask the difference in width. But it would exacerbate the difference in length.

You can't possibly put the Galaxy S3 in front of the iPhone and create that scene. That picture is a mess.

iPhone 4/4S: 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3mm

Galaxy S3: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6mm

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