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

Thu Jul 26 04:58:16 CEST 2012

On 07/25/2012 06:34 PM, 
+bschroeder at internode.on.net wrote:
+> On Wednesday 25 Jul 2012 14:39 my mailbox was graced by a message from Tony
+>
+>     Blackwell who wrote:
+>      > As an Aussie who is highly unlikely to ever see the worth
+>      > vs effort of an en_AU translation,
+>
+>     Mageia in Strine ?
+>
+>     Shades of Afferbeck Lauder !
+>
+>     Cheers,
+>
+>     Ron.
+>
+>     -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
+>
+>     (My apologies for the formatting supplied by my web-browser email
+>     interface)
+>
+>     Another little item I have discovered about various Englishes.
+>     American English
+>     has had a significant Irish input.  Much of Australia had a lot of
+>     Irish convicts in
+>     its early days and its English bears a noticeable  Irish influence
+>     too, though
+>     nowhere near the extent of North America.  South Australia (where I
+>     am from)
+>     did not have this and thus South Australian English is more directly
+>     descended
+>     from official 19th century English English (so far as such a beast
+>     can be said
+>     to exist).
+>
+>     Brian.
+>
+A number of Irish migrated here as a result of the infamous Potato 
+Famine. Or so I've been told, anyway. My own family has some Irish 
+roots, and that's why they came here. Also there's some British, Scot, 
+and Dutch heritage in my genes.
+
+And apparently, while you Aussies got the Irish convicts, we got the 
+cops. The Irish beat cop is a cliche in many US cities, especially New York.
+
+TJ
+
+