User talk:MrKiplingBanana

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You might like to read our article on Oxford spelling. Dbfirs 21:39, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

January 2018[edit]

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. 🎼Yexstorm2001🎼 (talk) 21:48, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry its not disruptive to preserve my native language from miss-use and miss-appropriation. Your way of spelling the word may have been accepted but i have a right to preserve my language. go get your own!

MrKiplingBanana (talk) 21:56, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct that schools in the UK now teach the spelling as decolonisation, but if you go to a library and consult the big Oxford English dictionary, you will see that both spellings are common in your native language. Dbfirs 22:18, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case you have no access to a library, I have copied the four cites from the Oxford English Dictionary below:

1938 M. J. Bonn Crumbling of Empire ii. 101 A decolonization movement is sweeping over the continents. An age of empire-breaking is following an age of empire-making.

1957 Economist 19 Oct. 213/2 Nor did the postwar return of the colonial powers reverse or halt the process of ‘decolonisation’.

1960 Guardian 6 Oct. 10/4 Britain, as a liberal state, engaged in working out the logic of decolonisation.

1967 Times 30 Nov. 11/1 If the full glory of decolonization is to throw the alien power out neck and crop, this satisfaction can hardly be denied the National Liberation Front.

I hope this helps to educate you about your native language. Dbfirs 22:27, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How disgustingly arrogant for you, a settler colonist to lecture me, an Englishman on my language! English schools have always spelled the word correctly with an S as they do for all other similar words. Both spellings are not common in my native language your overt culture and constant miss spelling have forced it into common use! this does not make it right, after all mine is a language of millennia not a few weekends like your bastardisation. without a strong push to preserve my language and its correct use it will be stolen and changed by your half educated masses who are still taught creationism. I hope this helps educate you on who's language you are using and show a bit of damn respect! MrKiplingBanana (talk) 22:27, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You might be interested to know that I am more English than you are, being able to trace my ancestry back to before America was discovered, and I have never visited our colonies across the Pacific. Dbfirs 22:52, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More English than me?! were you born in England? raised in England? I was! Were your parents, grand parents and great grandparent born and raised in England? Mine were, dont give me this pseudo american nationality BS because some distant relative might have come from there, where did you get your records from i wonder ancestry.com? Your American, own it! and dont try to hide the fact America has been misappropriating the English language and altering it for the past 100 years, moreover this misappropriation does not in any way justify spelling things incorrectly. for example Aluminium/Aluminum this stems from the discovery of the element by both scientists across the pond and in England this is perfectly reasonable, the incorrect spelling of old words cant really be justified just because you currently have a predominant culture.

MrKiplingBanana (talk) 17:12, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

3RR Warning[edit]

Your recent editing history at Decolonization shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 22:56, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]