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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008348.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008348.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..02e07443e --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008348.html @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" 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=%3Cjureq7%24nak%241%40dough.gmane.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008342.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="008346.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)</H1> + <B>TJ</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=%3Cjureq7%24nak%241%40dough.gmane.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)">andrewsfarm at gmail.com + </A><BR> + <I>Thu Jul 26 14:56:31 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008342.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008346.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8348">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8348">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8348">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8348">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On 07/26/2012 02:43 AM, Max Quarterpleen wrote: +><i> +</I>><i> +</I> +><i> +</I>><i> When I say NY, there is of course only one thing I mean, The City. :P +</I>><i> And I haven't lived there for more than 20 years, so my slang might be a +</I>><i> bit dated. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>Sigh. Yes, I know. Happens all the time. You'd be surprised at how many +US residents think the entire state of NY is covered with concrete +buildings and asphalt. Especially when you hear that agriculture is the +state's largest industry. But it's the cross we Upstaters are forced to +bear... + + +><i> Lord knows I can't speak for all Americans, but for my own part I +</I>><i> could easily adapt if British were the default language, rather than +</I>><i> American. I have traveled to Canada and have cruised through web +</I>><i> sites that used British spelling, and have felt no offense (Oops +</I>><i> again. *offence,* isn't it?) at seeing it. If it will help +</I>><i> international relations, I'm more than willing to exist with +</I>><i> spellings that look odd to me. After a while, I doubt they'd still +</I>><i> look so odd. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That isn't even on the table for discussion. We simply cannot change the +</I>><i> hard-coded default language in the code. We need our original programmer +</I>><i> to do that, and chances are that even he won't be able to. +</I>><i> The discussion is about having an en_GB "translation". +</I> +OK, but do we really have to be so serious about it? I need a little fun +in my life from time to time so I remain sane. + +TJ + + +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008342.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008346.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8348">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8348">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8348">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8348">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |