-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/12/2011 4:14 PM, Julian Edwards wrote: > On Tuesday 12 July 2011 12:00:10 Matthew Revell wrote: >> Sort of; by which I mean "yes". For at least two years now the company >> style guide has required British English. As we're aiming to bring >> Launchpad more into line with the Canonical brand, and we're >> undertaking a rebrand project, it seems like the right time for >> Launchpad to also switch to British English. > > Spelling differences are probably only 50% of the story here since there's > many phrases specific to British vs US English, and some of them will grate > on > the foreign ear. For example, when Americans say "likely will", it makes me > wince! > > I've always advocated that we should strive to be as country/culture agnostic > as possible. This means we need input from native speakers of both types to > make sure it's not awkward English for them. In my above example, I would > translate this to "is likely to be". > > Hopefully at that point we'll only be left with unavoidable clashes of > spelling with common words like colour/color where the company style dictates > precedence. > > Cheers. ;)
Shouldn't it just be localized, so you can have en_USREDNECK ? (Likely to be y'all) John =:-> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4cWAkACgkQJdeBCYSNAAPkywCfR7dh0fLhVfJoeS+yLg6KL8T4 WjEAnjUj7PncnrpkC3oX0Onbm4B9zegA =Znuy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
