that's not how it's spelled.

*it's

it almost always comes with bonus content or $5 off or you can download 3 days early or some perk, plus i can remember gamestop being out of some titles at launch as little as a couple years ago.

but yeah pre-ordering for full price on steam for no benefit is lol

i hate anything that uses an alarm clock (especially one that sounds exactly like the one i used to have) since it instantly makes me think "ugh its really early gotta get ready for a full day of work"

release day delivery.

It pisses me off seeing old ladies tighten up their grip on their purses/bags when a black male enters the elevator.

instincts gonna instinct

If this is true, I can't imagine how self conscious she is about everything else

actually that's exactly how its spelled.

Piñata

there is no 'ñ' in the english language.

But there is in Spanish and Piñata is a Spanish word

we speak english here and pinata is an english word

stinkypete stop posting

anarchist go **** yourself

It's not a defensive posture but rather a reflexive maneuver as the little old lady imagines the possibility of being ravaged by the great Mandinka warrior while on her way to the 8th floor girdles and support hose.

cliffs:

(things that shouldn't piss me off, but do)

1. arbitrary use of non-english characters in the english language. if we're gonna spell pinata "piñata" then why don't we spell sushi "寿司"?

2. morons like anarchist who object to discussion of things that shouldn't piss you off, but do in the "things that shouldn't piss you off, but do" thread

fyp

1. Because the average guy can decipher how to pronounce "piñata" but could not begin to sound out "寿司"

Example: Me

but it's entirely arbitrary. nobody spells Mexico "México" so why would we spell pinata wrong?

I may be mistaken but if you bring up your Character Map it will show these non-English characters all lumped together with the English characters as actually being Latin characters.

That would be a good reason to use them when spelling non-English words.

Most languages are translated into Latin letter equivalents for those speaking languages developed from Latin languages quite likely, that is why we have sushi and Mitsubishi on signs instead of kanji letters.

Because we say MEHCKS' -e- koh and not MEH' -e- koh?

Whereas when we say piñata we pronounce the tilde n with a yah sound.

And there are a lot of language rules that seem quite arbitrary but someone, somewhere decided they worked so we do it.

The last few posts, but i kind of suspect they should piss me off?

No one said anything about how we "should" spell it. Hardly anyone puts the diacritics on resume, cliche, touche—or pinata*—unless MSWord auto-corrects them or something. And that's acceptable in informal writing. It's not like the orthography police will come to your house if you don't and jam an accent aigu up your ass.

The only reason the Spanish spelling of pinata was even alluded to is one poster was under the impression that the pronunciation was wonky given its (anglicized) spelling. And another poster basically implied no, it isn't, because the pronunciation is based on how it's spelled in its original language—the same reason resume isn't supposed to be spelled rezoomay.

*edit: e.g., search pinata on 2+2.

Can we resumé this thread now?