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From: Shyam Mani <fox2mike@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] american english/british english/??? english
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:01:12
Message-Id: 42CE2460.6070000@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-doc] american english/british english/??? english by Jack Dark
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4 Jack Dark wrote:
5 > While browsing the docs in search of general spelling errors, I
6 > noticed that a few documents had internationalized spelling of certain
7 > words. Are the docs generally supposed to be written in American
8 > English--as most of the English ones seem to be--or is that
9 > unimportant? I have no particular preference either way; the addition
10
11 I think that as long as we get the point across and the word/sentence is
12 correct english, it doesn't matter.
13
14 > or subtraction of a few letters from the odd word doesn't bother me. I
15 > was just wondering if doc writers are supposed to adhere to one
16 > consistent spelling scheme even though it might be outside of their
17 > region.
18
19 Don't think so.
20
21 > For example, do the doc writers from the UK have to spell using
22 > American English (or Australian English), even though it's not what
23 > they're familiar with, or are the guidelines much more relaxed and
24 > permit one's native lexicon to be used?
25
26 There is only *one* english, British. Hehe, j/king.
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28 Anyway, AFAIK, we have no rules on that, and I think it is darn too
29 trivial to sit and actually bother about. If the sentence
30 formation/spelling is good, we're okay. As an example, I recently
31 removed sections of a patch that changed correct British English to
32 American English like localisation to localization because it is
33 unnecessary to correct something that is already correct :)
34
35 Regards,
36
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Re: [gentoo-doc] american english/british english/??? english Jack Dark <jackdark@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-doc] american english/british english/??? english Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>