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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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> > I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in England; |
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> > I speak English. People who live in America speak their own version of |
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> > it, adapted from the original. |
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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 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 that |
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only a white man could think that cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket |
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and sewing it onto the top would give him a longer blanket. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |