On Tuesday 29 August 2006 07:30, jdow wrote:
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> 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.
>
>And potatoe WAS/IS a legitimate spelling for potato in the US at the
>time illiterate lefties made it a means of tarring Dan Quayle.
>
>{^_-}
Still is as far as I'm concerned. As for Dan, he should have been
feathered too. That spelling bruhaha was just a handy handle to hang
something on an arrogant ****.
--
Cheers, Gene
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