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On Sunday, 7 January 2018 11:18:36 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:46:00 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 09:50:59PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote |
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> > |
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> > > On Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:34:36 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > > > On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:00:14 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > > > grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc |
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> > > > > > linguas_en - English locale |
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> > > > > > linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia |
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> > > > > > linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada |
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> > > > > > linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain |
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> > > > > > linguas_en_US - English locale |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in |
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> > > > > England; |
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> > > > > I speak English. People who live in America speak their own version |
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> > > > > of |
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> > > > > it, adapted from the original. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Indeed, en_US is a fork of the original. |
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> > > > I guess that's why, in the old cowboy films, the native Americans used |
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> > > > to |
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> > > > say "white man speak with forked tongue" ;-) |
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> > > Then there's that old one about the Native American chief who observed |
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> > > that only a white man could think that cutting a foot off the bottom of |
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> > > a blanket and sewing it onto the top would give him a longer blanket. |
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> > That was apparently after the white man tried to explain to him the |
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> > "advantages" of Daylight Saving Time. |
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> Yes. Which, of course it doesn't. Save anything, I mean. |
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It 'saves' the socio-economic model whereby aggressively promoted consumerism |
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attempts to secure a continuation of artificially enhanced cross-border trade, |
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at ever increasing rates. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |