Norbert Bollow writes:
> On some of those lists, it is really strongly desirable to actively
> encourage the list's participants to see themselves as an
> international community, in particular as a community where US
> centric perspectives are not privileged over other perspectives.
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On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 08:40 -0400, Timothy Jasionowski wrote:
> I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but can we acknowledge that
> this version of Mailman is effectively on life support for a variety
> of reasons, that the limited developer
I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but can we acknowledge that this
version of Mailman is effectively on life support for a variety of reasons,
that the limited developer support on it has been focused primarily on fixing
critical bugs out of kindness rather than implementing any new
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 21:06:52 +0200
Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
> And there are other expressions which are completely different in UK
> English and US English - see
>
Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users writes:
> I just keep getting reminded
By your users? By Tommy Robinson fans, Boris Johnson, and football
hooligans? Or just when you see it in the list of supported languages?
> that we specifically support USA English and we offer no other
> English
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On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 14:17 -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> On 7/8/2019 1:51 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
> > I just keep getting reminded that we specifically support USA English
> > and we offer no other English language support.
>
>
On 7/8/2019 1:51 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
I just keep getting reminded that we specifically support USA English
and we offer no other English language support.
I'm not clear on what other English needs support. (This kind of seems like
a solution in search of a problem.)
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On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 13:32 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 7/8/19 1:00 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
> >
> > Just to be clear, I'm not proposing changes to any po strings, rather
> > just the labels. The end result would be just
On 7/8/19 1:00 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
>
> Just to be clear, I'm not proposing changes to any po strings, rather
> just the labels. The end result would be just "English" in the list of
> available languages for a list instead of "English (USA)".
Actually, you are proposing
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On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 12:46 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 7/8/19 12:15 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
>
> >
> > Now I'm confused. :-) I know about the differences in UK and US English
> > are in general (color vs colour, etc), but I
On 7/8/19 12:15 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
>
> Now I'm confused. :-) I know about the differences in UK and US English
> are in general (color vs colour, etc), but I don't know about the
> differences within Mailman. Adding to my confusion is that my Mailman
> installs only
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On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 21:06 +0200, Christian F Buser wrote:
> Hi Jim
>
> I do not know about where the English (US) and English (UK) languages differ
> in Mailman. But in school, half a century ago, I learnt (learned) about the
> differences in
Hi Jim
I do not know about where the English (US) and English (UK) languages differ in
Mailman. But in school, half a century ago, I learnt (learned) about the
differences in general. For example color / colour, center / centre, etc.
And there are other expressions which are completely
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It has been brought to my attention again that Mailman supports one
dialect of English, but declares that it the USA variant. What in
Mailman makes the English language (translations?) specific to USA?
In the interest of world perspectives, would
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