From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:40:44 +0000 Message-ID: <20080701124044.GB2273@muc.de> References: <85skuva3zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080630094906.GA2910@muc.de> <87myl25a3s.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214914605 15078 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2008 12:16:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero To: Johannes Weiner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 01 14:17:27 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 1KDenO-0003kC-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:17:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44124 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDemW-0002lv-Mv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDemR-0002l0-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDemQ-0002kS-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33347 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDemQ-0002kK-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:1524 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDemO-0002CX-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 47884 invoked by uid 3782); 1 Jul 2008 12:16:13 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E518DE.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.24.222]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:16:10 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2610 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Jul 2008 12:40:44 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87myl25a3s.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:100266 Archived-At: 'n Tag, Johannes! On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:36:55AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Hi, > Alan Mackenzie 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. Still, it could be worse. I've seen "Nuremburg" in print. Funny, though, because the castle here is far more prominent than any mountain. > Hannes -- Alan Mackenzie (Nürnberg, Franken).