David Fletcher wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 16:01, Ed Greshko wrote: >> David Fletcher wrote: >>> On Monday 28 August 2006 15:02, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>> I think you've got it the wrong way around. "Defence" is the correct >>> spelling. >> Both are correct. > So "dephence" would also be correct, would it? As would "Korekt"? In Malaysia, a former colony of some "English" speaking country, computer is komputer. >> Why is it that one side has to be "correct/right" and the other side >> "incorrect/wrong". I don't get it. > The human brain has always been endowed with sufficient intelligence to be > capable of making allowances for incorrect spelling, intentional or > accidental. It can still dig out the correct meaning even if the text isn't > absolutely correct. Fortunately. So it actually doesn't matter a damn if > other nations choose to use incorrect spelling. I can tolerate it. You mean like when some countries/people spell "Rome" instead of "Roma" or "Florence" instead of "Firenze" or "Taipei" instead of "台北"? > Now, if somebody were to alter some C language keywords in gcc, say > change "break" to "exit" and "return" to "sendback" that would really foul > things up. So we just don't do it. Ahh...now I know the true meaning of "Artificial Intelligence". :-)
