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

Thu Jul 26 14:56:31 CEST 2012

On 07/26/2012 02:43 AM, Max Quarterpleen wrote:
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+> When I say NY, there is of course only one thing I mean, The City. :P
+> And I haven't lived there for more than 20 years, so my slang might be a
+> bit dated.
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+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...
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+>     Lord knows I can't speak for all Americans, but for my own part I
+>     could easily adapt if British were the default language, rather than
+>     American. I have traveled to Canada and have cruised through web
+>     sites that used British spelling, and have felt no offense (Oops
+>     again. *offence,* isn't it?) at seeing it. If it will help
+>     international relations, I'm more than willing to exist with
+>     spellings that look odd to me. After a while, I doubt they'd still
+>     look so odd.
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+> That isn't even on the table for discussion. We simply cannot change the
+> hard-coded default language in the code. We need our original programmer
+> to do that, and chances are that even he won't be able to.
+> The discussion is about having an en_GB "translation".
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+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.
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+TJ
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