User talk:Killing Vector/Archives/2010/January

Pale ale
Hi KV, I think your latest edit is a lot better, although the whole section's still a bit superfluous: "pale ale is..wait for it..pale..and an ale". What bugged me about the original version was the (unreferenced and unhistorical) assertion that any top-fermented beer is an ale: an idea promoted by American homebrewers like the BJCP whose grasp of European brewing techniques and history is slight to non-existent.

The real culprits are of course the nineteenth-century brewers who despite their new product being a heavily-hopped beer rather than a lightly-hopped ale dubbed it 'pale ale', presumably a rhyming phrase that tripped off the tongue more easily than its synonym 'bitter beer'. So hence pale ale, an 'ale' that's actually a beer rather than an ale! Haldraper (talk) 19:11, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

TUSC
Ah cheers for that. Didn't know if there was an automatic link for TUSC. doktorb wordsdeeds 12:14, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Mutual intelligibility
I made a bit of a bold move at this article&mdash;blanked the whole list. I left a message explaining it at Talk:Mutual intelligibility, figured you might be interested. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 01:34, 29 January 2010 (UTC)