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(about American English in Mageia for British users)</H1> + <B>Anne Wilson</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20What%20is%20your%20motivation%3F%20%28about%20American%0A%20English%20in%20Mageia%20for%20British%20users%29&In-Reply-To=%3C50104079.6030904%40kde.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)">annew at kde.org + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Jul 25 20:52:41 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008327.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008340.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? 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The point +</I>><i> is the mindset. +</I> +Long ago I read that US spelling is, in fact, much closer to 18C. +British English spelling, and that the spelling we now feel to be +correct is in fact something that has developed over the recent +centuries. That interested me. + +What really clinched things for me, though, was the concept that +writing is about communication. The one thing that matters above all, +is whether the reader understands you. Because of this, I sometimes +correct grammar, where I think a sentence as it stands leads to some +ambiguity. Beyond that, as long as the meaning is clear and the +sentence not particularly clumsy, I leave well alone. + +Wobo said that his English teacher told him that few people in Britain +speak "official" English. How true that is. I would be very +surprised to find anyone that didn't have some variations, often +showing centuries of ancestral culture. It's not accident that in +Yorkshire there are few French influences and many Norse ones. French +barons in the 11C settled much further south than this, whereas many +Scandinavians settled here. We have beautiful words like "thoil" +which no-one else understands, but for us it expresses something that +has no equivalent in "official" English. You can't thoil it if you +can afford to buy something, but you don't feel it would add +sufficient value to your life. How about all that in one word? + +T +><i> As they say in NY, put out or get out. The British translation for +</I>><i> that would be: get down from your high horse and help out or just +</I>><i> go away. +</I> +OR "Put up, or shut up" :-) + +><i> So please, you are welcome to join the Mageia team and provide an +</I>><i> en_GB translation for what is missing. You are welcome to sit in +</I>><i> silent defiance and nurse your stubbornness. But this, this +</I>><i> angst-driven tirade? This is not welcome at all. It only generates +</I>><i> more angst. +</I> +After a bad start, just relax. You will be welcomed if you do give +your effort. + +Anne + +- -- +Need KDE help? Try +<A HREF="http://userbase.kde.org">http://userbase.kde.org</A> or +<A HREF="http://forum.kde.org">http://forum.kde.org</A> +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) +Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <A HREF="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</A> + +iEYEARECAAYFAlAQQHYACgkQj93fyh4cnBdPCQCaAjmKop1teYMikbnFpX5Y5YQk +UlQAmgL15X/WlCyNqJgiU7XqMZ8yYTrw +=cLb4 +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008327.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008340.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? 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