[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)

Wed Jul 25 14:45:10 CEST 2012

2012/7/25 Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>:
+>>
+> How insular can you get?  No wonder the British are seen as somewhat
+> ridiculous.  Are you seriously suggesting that an Englishman cannot
+> understand the word "color"?  Of course not.  Please do not waste
+> people's time like this.  If you feel strongly that there should be an
+> en_GB translation of everything, then contribute to it.
+
+I've read all this with a growing feeling of amusement, remembering
+the words of my English teacher in German High School. She being a
+native speaker (born in Cornwall, studies in Oxford) always told us
+that there is no such "official English language" as it is the case
+with German (as example) where you have official dictionaries and
+official orthographic and grammar rules. There are even different
+schoolbooks for English in German schools (depending on the district
+(Bundesland)).
+A couple of decades later I had some nice discussions with an English
+proofreader of computer manuals about this or that tiny bit where he
+claimed that this or that sentence is wrong, and we searched the
+different aknowledged dictionaries and found different possible
+"correct" spellings and phrasings.
+
+So, standing up for "your language" in such a way, even accusing a
+small group of voluntary community contributors is quite off the track
+IMHO.
+
+BTW: I've been to England quite often, most places I have been people
+talked everything else but not that "official" English you are so hard
+fighting for.
+
+Solution:
+Join the i18n team, gather other people around you and do a en_GB
+translation of all the packages. These will be then implemented in
+MGA3, depending on the status of completion.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+