Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:46:00 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 09:50:59PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote
>
> > On Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:34:36 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:00:14 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > > grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc
> > > > > linguas_en - English locale
> > > > > linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia
> > > > > linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada
> > > > > linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain
> > > > > linguas_en_US - English locale
> > > >
> > > > I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in
> > > > England;
> > > > I speak English. People who live in America speak their own version
> > > > of
> > > > it, adapted from the original.
> > >
> > > Indeed, en_US is a fork of the original.
> > >
> > > I guess that's why, in the old cowboy films, the native Americans used
> > > to
> > > say "white man speak with forked tongue" ;-)
> >
> > Then there's that old one about the Native American chief who observed
> > that only a white man could think that cutting a foot off the bottom of
> > a blanket and sewing it onto the top would give him a longer blanket.
>
>   That was apparently after the white man tried to explain to him the
> "advantages" of Daylight Saving Time.

Yes. Which, of course it doesn't. Save anything, I mean.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.