A masked Apple employee begins to blog

[Apologies for the double posting]

"colour is the proper spelling.... (well for me in england!!) My argument for 'proper english' is it was ours first, so ours must be right!!"

Spelling aside, one of the most fascinating things I learned in my historical linguistics classes at college was that linguists believe that American accents, especially some New England accents, are much closer to what was spoken in the U.K. two or three hundred years ago than the current U.K. accent.

Emigrant populations tend to be more conservative than the original populations from the standpoint of language innovation, and this has been true with other languages also.

It's really quite fascinating how they are able to reconstruct accents from periods when no sound recording existed. Besides the obvious things like looking at poetry, song lyrics, and puns, they know that vowels univerally tend to change in certain "directions" over time, and things like that.

"colour is the proper spelling.... (well for me in england!!) My argument for 'proper english' is it was ours first, so ours must be right!!"

Spelling aside, one of the most fascinating things I learned in my historical linguistics classes at college was that linguists believe that American accents, especially some New England accents, are much closer to what was spoken in the U.K. two or three hundred years ago than the current U.K. accent.

Emigrant populations tend to be more conservative than the original populations from the standpoint of language innovation, and this has been true with other languages also.

It's really quite fascinating how they are able to reconstruct accents from periods when no sound recording existed. Besides the obvious things like looking at poetry, song lyrics, and puns, they know that vowels univerally tend to change in certain "directions" over time, and things like that.

"colour is the proper spelling.... (well for me in england!!) My argument for 'proper english' is it was ours first, so ours must be right!!"

Spelling aside, one of the most fascinating things I learned in my historical linguistics classes at college was that linguists believe that American accents, especially some New England accents, are much closer to what was spoken in the U.K. two or three hundred years ago than the current U.K. accent.

Emmigrant

It's a bit niggling, but

"It looks like you need to acquire better proof readers!"

Proofreader is one word ....

Maybe its an ex-pat living in US, but still thinks of the supermarket as Sainburys. Thus the use of dollars and Sainsburys in his comparison.
As far as i'm aware Sainburys only has the automated checked-outs in Large Metro Areas, which rules out Henley-on-Thames, though with it full of London commuters that could be a falicy.

"...the broader issue is how we evolve large company support organisations where typically the relationship is managed by a junior member of staff and arbitrated by fixed processes? How do we build two-way conversations and trusted relationships?"

Those questions and more are critical ones for Apple themselves to answer if they want to continue riding high. As Masked himself points out, "The organisation that cracks this first will have innovation far more valuable than any product based innovation!"

all i can say is thats a killer quote!

Breached: British English has been around a lot longer than "American" English, thank you very much.

= Link Baiting

Not the same, Adam. Ungeni.us and afterapple aren't written by /current/ Apple employees. You are no longer employed by Apple, correct?

Umm, ungeni.us and afterapple.com have been doing this for a while, and without hiding...