Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb
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Wendell Cochran <atrypa@eskimo.com> writes:
> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 00:09:25 -0700
> From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
>
> Tim Connors <tconnors+linuxdebianuser1083636621@astro.swin.edu.au>
> writes:
>>> If someone wants to fund me a time-machine, I will be very happy to
> go
>>> back and eliminate the problem - namely bloody Webster.
>
>> American English spelling is bloody retarded, and I'm a native
>> speaker. Problem is American English borrows from so many
> languages,
>> we have a real mutt of a language.
>
>
> This seems as good a place as any to observe that English is
> emphatically open source.
Right, but the problem was Webster wasn't the maintainer. American is
essentially an entire country following the retarded misspellings and
goofy idioms of one man and nearly no one else. Then uploaded the
result to CVS without mentioning it and nobody did anything about it.
- --
Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.ca>
Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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