Re: A language by any other name

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe it should ask if you want british or american english.
> > 
> why? we know what is *the* english, the one that originated in england.
> (note how the two words have the same root, eng-?) as a pratical rule, i
> suggest to assign the language 'name' to the locale of the coutry that
> originated it. spain for spanish, italy for italian, france for french,
> etc. everybody is accepting that on other languages, don't see why the
> americans should do different... :( 
> 

I agree. This argument sounds reasonable.  If spanish maps to Spain, then
english should map to England.

Drew

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