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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
	Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:10:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzf94rv8.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080701124044.GB2273@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue,  1 Jul 2008 12:40:44 +0000")

Hi,

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> 'n Tag, Johannes!
>
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:36:55AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
>> > British spellings, etymologically more accurate, refined and
>> > cultured, are clearly so superior to ignorant and vulgar
>> > Americanisms, that it vexes me that Emacs has chosen to use the
>> > latter.  I mean, "color" is something you wear round your neck, isn't
>> > it?  And surely if the Americans had had the moral character to
>> > retain proper spelling, they wouldn't have brutishly, arrogantly and
>> > indiscriminately kidnapped several hundred men, detained them
>> > unlawfully in Cuba for many years and tortured them.  Although this
>> > is intuitively obvious, it's a little difficult to demonstrate
>> > scientifically.  Hey, I can't help the prejudices of my upbringing,
>> > though I try.  Sometimes. ;-)
>
>> While we are discussing vulgarism, it is called ,,Nürnberg'' ;)
>
> It is, indeed.  Trouble is, and I can't be Frank enough here, native
> English speakers can't pronounce Nürnberg properly.  Even I can't manage
> it, though I've lived here for some while.  Fürth is even more
> troublesome.

Something like `nurn-bairk'?  And `furrd' (with a very short ur and with
an `r' that does not sound like a mouth full of chewing gum).

HTH, but I figure people already tried to teach you ;)

> Still, it could be worse.  I've seen "Nuremburg" in print.  Funny,
> though, because the castle here is far more prominent than any
> mountain.

Ouch!  But this is completely due to your pronunciation.  There is an
audible difference between `burg' and `berg' (in German) you can even
make out through the worst mobile-phone connection while standing next
to a starting jet engine.

`boork' vs. `bairk' or something.

	Hannes




  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1KC8XT-0007F3-Io@monty-python.gnu.org>
2008-06-27  9:21 ` Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27  9:48   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27  9:50   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 10:56     ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 11:40       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:01         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 13:43           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 18:14           ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-27 19:10             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 19:28             ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 13:20               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-28 15:10                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-28 21:19                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 21:30                   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-28 21:47                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-28 22:45                     ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28  6:48             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29  9:52               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 10:13                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 11:06                   ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-29 11:57                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 18:02                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 19:53                       ` Sam Steingold
2008-06-29 20:00                         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43                           ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 20:20                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 20:57                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-29 22:05                   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 22:26                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 22:29                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  5:25                       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30  7:48                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  8:16                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30  8:18                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  9:49                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30  9:42                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 10:07                             ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-30 12:05                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 20:02                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-01 11:06                             ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-01 11:12                               ` David Kastrup
2008-07-01 12:19                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01  7:36                           ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-01 12:40                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01 14:10                               ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2008-06-27  9:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-27 10:05     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 10:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 10:23         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:16       ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 12:30         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 12:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 12:52           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 16:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 16:54             ` Agustin Martin
2008-06-28  2:01               ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 13:46         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28  1:02           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-28  1:07             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28  1:50               ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-30 13:43         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 13:33           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 13:39             ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 13:59               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 18:23             ` Johan Bockgård
2008-06-30 18:40               ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 20:32           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-07-01  1:04           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 15:38   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27 16:55     ` Eli Zaretskii

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