From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:07:54 +1200 Message-ID: <18536.45178.320007.564981@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <85skuva3zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080630094906.GA2910@muc.de> <85iqvr8di8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214824254 27454 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 11:10:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:10:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 13:11:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDHIC-0004hj-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:11:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDHHL-0002fn-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDHGl-0002Q6-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDHGj-0002Nu-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34693 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDHGi-0002Nj-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:49983) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDHGd-00071g-7e; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (206.31.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.31.206]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD143D9FAC; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:08:00 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8D2E48FC6D; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:07:55 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <85iqvr8di8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100213 Archived-At: > > So I can. 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? > > You mean "collar". You should exhibit a better grasp of spelling if you > want to make a convincing point. Lighten up, it's a joke. In UK English red is a "colour", so naturally one then starts to wonder what "color" means. It made me smile anyway. > Anyway, the point is that Emacs _has_ chosen a language for its > documentation. It would be out of place if I commented my contributions > in German, so why should others document in British? Because British and American are almost the same language while German is completely different? Oops, sorry I seem to be in the wrong mailing list. Emacs, anyone? -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob