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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Thu Jul 26 12:57:13 CEST 2012</I>
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On 26/07/12 03:45, TJ wrote:
><i>
</I>><i> The US is a strange place that often makes little sense. We drive
</I>><i> on the parkway, and park on the driveway,
</I>
Perfect examples of needing to be aware of clarity :-)
><i> And add to that all the words we've integrated from languages from
</I>><i> all over the world - our infamous "melting-pot" at work - and you
</I>><i> get a hopeless mess. But it's our mess, and we like it that way.
</I>><i>
</I>Equally true of en_GB - we like our own mess, but we shouldn't inflict
on others anything that could confuse them.
><i> BTW Anne, sorry, but to my ears "thoil" sounds like something
</I>><i> someone with a lisp would say when describing a planting medium.
</I>
Haha! Still, you have to admit that having a single word that implies
so much is useful :-)
>>><i> As they say in NY, put out or get out. The British translation
</I>>>><i> for that would be: get down from your high horse and help out
</I>>>><i> or just go away.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> OR "Put up, or shut up" :-)
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> I don't remember hearing Max's version in Upstate New York. The
</I>><i> high horse variation is older usage (My grandmother favored it.
</I>><i> Oops. Sorry. *favoured* it.), and Anne's version is the most common
</I>><i> here. Another version is "Put your money where your mouth is."
</I>><i>
</I>Agreed - often used here.
>>><i> So please, you are welcome to join the Mageia team and provide
</I>>>><i> an en_GB translation for what is missing. You are welcome to
</I>>>><i> sit in silent defiance and nurse your stubbornness. But this,
</I>>>><i> this angst-driven tirade? This is not welcome at all. It only
</I>>>><i> generates more angst.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> After a bad start, just relax. You will be welcomed if you do
</I>>><i> give your effort.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Anne
</I>>><i>
</I>><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
</I>><i> than American. I have traveled to Canada and have cruised through
</I>><i> web sites that used British spelling, and have felt no offense
</I>><i> (Oops 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> Heck, you can use Cockney if you want. Sounds like fun.
</I>
There I draw the line :-D Much of Cockney rhyming slang was
deliberate to avoid outsiders understanding a conversation, even down
to reversing words, such as 'yobs' for 'boys'.
I enjoy diversions into language like this, but of course the crux of
the matter in this context is that we all agree that clarity counts
most, and a little give-and-take always helps.
Anne
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