Talk:behaviour

Behaviour in computing

Behaviour in computing is slightly different, meaning how something works. 89.219.13.218 15:47, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Tea room discussion

Note: the below discussion was moved from the Wiktionary:Tea room.

Why does behavior have two senses and behaviour only one? Is the UK usage more restricted? RJFJR 14:54, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think so. I edited the inanimate sense BTW. DCDuring TALK 15:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, are these words sometimes uncountable? RJFJR 15:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, possibly even more commonly. "A behavior" (countable) means an instance of behavior (uncountable) or a habit (repeated behaviors). "That kind of behavior won't be tolerated in this classroom." is an example of the uncountable sense and seems to me to exemplify the most common everyday usage. The countable sense is used in psychological contexts. An analogous distinction would apply in the device/system sense, I think. DCDuring TALK 15:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

But "that behaviour won't be tolerated" is commonly said and countable, no? —Michael Z. 2008-06-02 17:28 z

Firstly, I'm not sure that that has to be countable; I don't see anything wrong with "that rice is disgusting", but I'd never say *"that's a disgusting rice" or *"those rice(s) are disgusting." (Or am I missing something?) But secondly, "that behaviour won't be tolerated" (possibly countable) gets 2 distinct Ghits, while google:"such behaviour won't be tolerated" (clearly uncountable) gets 36, and "that behaviour will not be tolerated" gets 11, while "such behaviour will not be tolerated" gets 308. Even when we remove the context from the search, and therefore include psychological examples in the counts, Google estimates "that behaviour" at 322 kGhits and "such behavior" at 529 kGhits. —Ruakh_TALK 22:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Audio file

The pronunciation of the current audio file is strange, at least not natural. Could someone kindly replace it with a more natural pronunciation? — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 12:53, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Proposed combination with behavior

As it stands now, this page has the exact same definition as behavior. Is there any reason they shouldn't be combined, and the page for the less-common spelling be changed to "Alternate spelling of..."? TeragR/talk 19:40, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Well, is it true that the words behave identically in all regards? I'd be suspicious about the collocations shown in the usage notes being identical, for example. DCDuring TALK 03:49, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Incidentally, the definitions are not so good. Most better dictionaries have about four.

RFM discussion: January 2021

See Talk:behavior#RFM discussion: January 2021.