From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johannes Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:36:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87myl25a3s.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> References: <85skuva3zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080630094906.GA2910@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214897892 18509 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2008 07:38:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 01 09:38:57 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 1KDaS0-000320-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:38:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDaR9-0004yd-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDaR4-0004xZ-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDaR3-0004wL-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40290 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDaR3-0004w0-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:31916) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDaQi-0001j4-5q; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from saeurebad.de ([85.214.36.134]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDaQg-00053T-8t; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: by saeurebad.de (Postfix, from userid 107) id 5F6274A0008; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:37:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (89-186-130-162.dynamic.primacom.net [89.186.130.162]) by saeurebad.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90EBC4A0002; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:37:30 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20080630094906.GA2910@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:49:07 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000485, version=1.1.3 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:100259 Archived-At: Hi, Alan Mackenzie writes: > Morning, David and everybody else! > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:25:22AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > >> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 00:05, Richard M Stallman wrote: > >> >> Are you accusing me of being inconsistent, then ;-)? > >> > Well, now that you mention it... > >> >> But here there is no sacrifice. If Glenn wants to spend his time >> >> this way, why argue? > >> > Fair enough. My comments are only because I think some of the authors >> > of the entries would want their linguistic flavour preserved. > >> Well, those authors are presumably reading the Emacs developer list >> when they are bothered about what happens "downstream" with their >> contribution. So they can speak up for themselves. > > 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? 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. ;-) > --=20 > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). While we are discussing vulgarism, it is called ,,N=C3=BCrnberg'' ;) Hannes