On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Craig Garner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Tim Tassonis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/28/15 16:59, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:27:33AM -0400, Craig Garner wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Tim Tassonis <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't know that much about it. If things should be British, then I >>>> need >>>> to do it all again with GB instead of US. >>>> >>> >>> My understanding was that, in general, either was appropriate. From >>> time to time, we have had arguments about grammar. But if US >>> spelling is to be enforced across the books, then I will devote less >>> time to LFS and BLFS. >>> >>> ĸen >>> >>> >> I'd love have both spelling variants being valid, too. While I fully >> accept American spelling, it comes as a slight insult for Europeans and >> probably even more so for British people to have their contributions >> "corrected" to the American spelling. Just yesterday, I talked to a British >> journalist about that who quit his job in London because his new U.S. >> editor started "fixing" his spelling. >> >> Otoh, I've no idea how significant the contributions to the book are from >> people outside the U.S. nowadays, and I also don't know what spelling is >> taught in the rest of the world apart from Europe. >> >> Kind regards >> Tim >> >> >> >> -- >> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev >> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ >> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >> > > > I think most were mispellings in either dialect. I can always check the > spelling and leave it as is if it is valid in either. > > I'm not looking to start some battle that is not worth anyone's energy.
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