CAMRA: "What's the difference between 'ale' and other beers?", http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=100330
The suggestion of moving to real_beer was made in response to interest from fellow German beer drinkers, who don't know what ale is, or at least shouldn't have to. > But it's common parlance to refer to real ale from the decades-long > activities of CAMRA which was never called CAMRAB - this is splitting hairs It is only splitting hairs if your beer horizon extends no further than the channel. Craig On 27 November 2011 20:18, Brian Prangle <[email protected]> wrote: > But it's common parlance to refer to real ale from the decades-long > activities of CAMRA which was never called CAMRAB - this is splitting hairs > > On 27 November 2011 19:54, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 27 November 2011 19:46, Graham Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 27 November 2011 12:07, Craig >> > Loftus <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Nobody disagreed. There haven't been any other suggestions, or the >> >> objections I expected to the use of real_beer. >> >> > Go on then, I'll disagree - why do we need a new key called real_beer >> > (currently 1 use in the database) when there is an existing key called >> > real_ale with 878 entries in the database. >> > It could be that I am not a beer-buff and don't appreciate the >> > distinction, >> > but they are synonymous to my simple mind, so I would have just gone >> > with >> > real_ale, which is a more common term as far as I am aware. >> >> Not all beers are ales. >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
