Hello Dwight,

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:27:05 -0600 GMT (03/02/2008, 02:27 +0700 GMT),
Dwight Corrin wrote:

DC> Are you serious. Did they take a language and decide to implement
DC> a new set of spellings?

Why not?

Lincoln did that in USA (valid only for USA). "Tonight" became
"tonite". OK, that one didn't stick, but how about neighbour versus
neighbor? (Question: Will the multiple-language spellchecking also
allow AE and BE side-by-side?)

The Germans (together with the Austrians and Swiss) have changed major
grammar rules in addition to spelling a couple times in the past
years. Everybody hopes they are done changing now. Valid for all
German-speakers in the world.

And the Chinese (under Mao) even changed their characters. Well, not
all of them, but about 400. Valid only in Mainland China, so that we
now have "traditional Chinese" (valid everywhere in the world except
Mainland China) and "simplified Chinese" spellings. They use even
different encodings in computing.

-- 

Cheers,
Thomas.

Q: How many programmers dose it take to change a lightbulb? A:
None...that's a hardware issue.
http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/

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