On 29/12/10 17:46, Rene Engelhard wrote: > English is de facto a thing everyone should know, even more so if > they are going to read the license. (And I would even > argue the preamble of the license belongs to the license itself, > and thus shouldn't be translated anyways).
Actually, as a native English speaker (that's English, not American :-) I'm pretty appalled by the fact we expect everyone else to speak our language, so I wouldn't agree "English is something everyone should know". Oh - and if we're going by European first languages at least, then the dominant native tongue is "some variant of latin". Making Latin the standard language of Europe would make a lot of sense :-) English is very much an also-ran in those stakes... > I also have to live with the fact that en_US iś "english", whereas > that's deserved by en_GB because that's the original english. I don't > add this as stopper either. > And again, no, en_GB is not the "original english". It is the language of the English nation, true (who are Saxons, not Angles :-), but American is actually a lot closer to historical English than is Modern English. (btw, the Angles speak Scots :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
