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

[Walter Dnes]

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.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
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