Re: A language by any other name
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:28:57AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> Sean Middleditch <elanthis@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > > Why such emphasis? The idea is to spell words like "colour" instead of
> > > "color", not to write the ls man page in iambic pentameter.
>
> No, the idea is to spell it "color," not "colour."
>
> The mass of writing in the computer world is American English, for
> better or for worse, and having different spellings in a single
> system is as distracting and unprofessional as misspelling the word
> entirely. Now some don't think that misspelled words are a big deal,
> but these are not enlightened people.
>
> Just so there is no confusion, I am not suggesting that everyone in
> the world use American English for everything. American English
> should be used for the documentation in a Debian system and
> therefore the alias for English should be en_US. If Romeo and Juliet
> were turned a package, the text would of course be in en_GB, but
> /usr/share/doc/r&j/README.Debian and the man page ;-) would be in
> en_US.
>
> If a multi-billion dollar company whose employees have all learned
> British English decide that their documentation should be in
> American English, that's saying something.
Hmmmm, you _didn't_ get it, did you ?
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