On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Dialects in the UK and Ireland have all but disappeared. > When I was young Geordies and Glaswegians were unintelligible. > Now someone with a real accent is treasured as an antique. > (I introduced a Scottish friend of mine recently, > and someone commented, "You do that accent beautifully".) I remember visiting England when I was about 12 (I'm from Australia). We'd just stepped into the house, and our Geordie cousins, who we'd never met before, brought their friends around and demanded that we say something to them to hear what we sounded like. I nearly picked a few *choice* words. ;-) > Anyway, as the OP, my complaint was that > Fedora should not describe the language as en_US > unless there is some other variant of English on offer. No, there's nothing wrong with declaring what it is, whether or not something else is offered. If English was the only language on offer, would you suggest that don't bother to declare it was English? If something presents itself as just being "English," then I expect it to be using proper spelling and grammar as from where English comes from (England). :-p -- (This box runs Centos 5.0, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & 7, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
