Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: >> However, when I exhange software engineering ideas with you, I wish >> both of us could stick to American English. > > [...] > > I would say it is wrong side of the ledger because the amount of > culture' invested into a Brit is more than into someone who just > poorly learned the language yesterday. > > In school my most memorable encounters were with Shakespeare, Blake, > Wordsworth [I did not like Keats]. Until he died at 102 my gpa would > recite Longfellow's "Lives of great men" almost as a daily prayer. If > all that gets erased for some tasteless colourless (ok colorless) > internationalese, its a bloody shame.
We are not talking about culture here but Python coding, conference keynote addresses at the most "cultured" end of it. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list