-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/07/12 03:45, TJ wrote: > > The US is a strange place that often makes little sense. We drive > on the parkway, and park on the driveway,
Perfect examples of needing to be aware of clarity :-) > And add to that all the words we've integrated from languages from > all over the world - our infamous "melting-pot" at work - and you > get a hopeless mess. But it's our mess, and we like it that way. > Equally true of en_GB - we like our own mess, but we shouldn't inflict on others anything that could confuse them. > BTW Anne, sorry, but to my ears "thoil" sounds like something > someone with a lisp would say when describing a planting medium. Haha! Still, you have to admit that having a single word that implies so much is useful :-) >>> As they say in NY, put out or get out. The British translation >>> for that would be: get down from your high horse and help out >>> or just go away. >> >> OR "Put up, or shut up" :-) >> > I don't remember hearing Max's version in Upstate New York. The > high horse variation is older usage (My grandmother favored it. > Oops. Sorry. *favoured* it.), and Anne's version is the most common > here. Another version is "Put your money where your mouth is." > Agreed - often used here. >>> So please, you are welcome to join the Mageia team and provide >>> an en_GB translation for what is missing. You are welcome to >>> sit in silent defiance and nurse your stubbornness. But this, >>> this angst-driven tirade? This is not welcome at all. It only >>> generates more angst. >> >> After a bad start, just relax. You will be welcomed if you do >> give your effort. >> >> Anne >> > Lord knows I can't speak for all Americans, but for my own part I > could easily adapt if British were the default language, rather > than American. I have traveled to Canada and have cruised through > web sites that used British spelling, and have felt no offense > (Oops again. *offence,* isn't it?) at seeing it. If it will help > international relations, I'm more than willing to exist with > spellings that look odd to me. After a while, I doubt they'd still > look so odd. > > Heck, you can use Cockney if you want. Sounds like fun. There I draw the line :-D Much of Cockney rhyming slang was deliberate to avoid outsiders understanding a conversation, even down to reversing words, such as 'yobs' for 'boys'. I enjoy diversions into language like this, but of course the crux of the matter in this context is that we all agree that clarity counts most, and a little give-and-take always helps. Anne - -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or http://forum.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlARIocACgkQj93fyh4cnBe/tgCeMHcTjjyoY3SaXsiQh/l9Gmr0 cyEAnjepkClHqXLzYtPdlJRILUCU1jAh =uKIu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
