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Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?



On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:40:46 +0100, Lisi wrote:

> On Sunday 03 April 2011 13:01:42 Camaleón wrote:
>> > And what about English English??
>>
>> "English English"? You mean "British English" (en-GB)? :-)
> 
> No.  I mean English English.  You try telling a Scot that English is the
> same thing as Scots!

And what's exactly that "English English"? I mean, what iso code it has? 
I ask becasue I'm not aware of any with that name :-?

> You are, however, slightly confused. ;-)  England, Great Britain and
> United Kingdom are all different things. 

I was talking about a language standard (en-gb) not about any other 
political related issues :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English

> You mention UK and GB as though they are the same thing as each other
> and as England!!  And there is no such thing as UK English. 
> Glaswegians and those from Belfast are both equally incomprehensible to
> me.
>
> The United Kingdom is a political entity and comprises four nations. 
> Hence the term "United" in the name.  The geographical entity of Great
> Britain houses three nations, the English, the Welsh and the Scots.  The
> countries are respectively called England, Wales and Scotland.  The
> fourth member of the united Kingdom, Northern Ireland, is not in Great
> Britain.  It is on the island of Ireland.

Fine, fine... I know well that "problematic". We also have many "Spanish" 
variations and dialects and not only inside Spain itself but also for The 
Americas so that's something we all know very well ;-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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