On Tuesday 29 August 2006 07:30, jdow wrote:
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net>
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 03:24, Tim wrote:
>>On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:56 -0400, William Case wrote:
>>> Some day it would be interesting and fun to get comments on why each
>>> of these forms of English is needed in a computer.
>>
>>Because when you use your computer, you want it to use your language,
>>not someone else's. Second to that annoyance, you see kids in your
>>country incorrectly spelling things, because they're using the language
>>of another country, learning it from their computer.
>>
>>Some time ago our newspapers started using American spelling, which
>> *is* "incorrect" to do in Australia. One reason given was that it was
>> a complete pain trying to work around the American spell checker.
>
> Humm, if it results in less miss-understandings between the peoples by
> pushing the people toward a common ground for language usage, I can't
> see as its an undesirable effect. We can all argue about color/colour,
> honor/honour, but we all know those meanings well. Local dialects of a
> language are ok as long as they don't drift too far and result in
> errors due to miss-understanding the lexical and pronunciation nuances
> of the locality.
>
> Winston C. was right, but we shouldn't get so carried away with our
> so-called local rights as to cause a general deterioration in
> understanding.
>
> In the above case, I believe there are English(GB) versions of the
> spell checkers available, so why don't they use them? OTOH, the
> Aussies do have a vernacular thats uniquely Australion, so maybe it
> would be best for the GB version of the spell checker to be
> forked/updated to include commonly used, Aussie unique words and
> phrases & call it the English(AU) version.
And potatoe WAS/IS a legitimate spelling for potato in the US at the
time illiterate lefties made it a means of tarring Dan Quayle.
{^_-}
Still is as far as I'm concerned. As for Dan, he should have been
feathered too. That spelling bruhaha was just a handy handle to hang
something on an arrogant ****.
--
Cheers, Gene
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