From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:40:23 +0200 Message-ID: <85k5g66a20.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20080630134328.GC2910@muc.de> <4868E0AF.4020208@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214851245 24940 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 18:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 20:41:31 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 1KDOJd-0006xP-2e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDOIm-0004tp-QM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDOIi-0004td-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDOIi-0004tR-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57163 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDOIh-0004tO-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]:42730) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDOIh-0001IT-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19A7105758 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:40:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4583213094 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:40:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-001-092.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.1.92]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58199105908 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:40:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B8EE21C8A67E; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:40:24 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: ("Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd=22's?= message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:23:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/7590/Mon Jun 30 19:49:43 2008 on mail-in-01.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean 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:100237 Archived-At: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockg=E5rd) writes: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> That is nice. For some non native English speakers it would be good to >> have a document describing those small differences. > > I have the Cassell Guide to Related Words (~650 pages). Having just googled for the recently late "George Carlin", I read about his list and standup show of "Seven Dirty Words", later expanded to a list of over 200. I had a short double take upon reading the above. The internet equivalent of channel zapping is fraught with dangers. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum