On Tuesday 29 August 2006 03:24, Tim wrote: >On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:56 -0400, William Case wrote: >> Some day it would be interesting and fun to get comments on why each >> of these forms of English is needed in a computer. > >Because when you use your computer, you want it to use your language, >not someone else's. Second to that annoyance, you see kids in your >country incorrectly spelling things, because they're using the language >of another country, learning it from their computer. > >Some time ago our newspapers started using American spelling, which *is* >"incorrect" to do in Australia. One reason given was that it was a >complete pain trying to work around the American spell checker. Humm, if it results in less miss-understandings between the peoples by pushing the people toward a common ground for language usage, I can't see as its an undesirable effect. We can all argue about color/colour, honor/honour, but we all know those meanings well. Local dialects of a language are ok as long as they don't drift too far and result in errors due to miss-understanding the lexical and pronunciation nuances of the locality. Winston C. was right, but we shouldn't get so carried away with our so-called local rights as to cause a general deterioration in understanding. In the above case, I believe there are English(GB) versions of the spell checkers available, so why don't they use them? OTOH, the Aussies do have a vernacular thats uniquely Australion, so maybe it would be best for the GB version of the spell checker to be forked/updated to include commonly used, Aussie unique words and phrases & call it the English(AU) version. >-- >(Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) > >Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. >I read messages from the public lists. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
