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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:34:52
Message-Id: 20180106183436.4c0edf00@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:00:14 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
3 > > grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc
4 > > linguas_en - English locale
5 > > linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia
6 > > linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada
7 > > linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain
8 > > linguas_en_US - English locale
9 >
10 > I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in England;
11 > I speak English. People who live in America speak their own version of
12 > it, adapted from the original.
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14 Indeed, en_US is a fork of the original.
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16 I guess that's why, in the old cowboy films, the native Americans used to
17 say "white man speak with forked tongue" ;-)
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21 Neil Bothwick
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23 WinErr 01E: Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored? allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>