Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Glenn Morris]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> - color is ~ 99%
> - behavior > 70%

I'd imagine that instances of "colour" or "behaviour" are due to
natives of Britain and other civilized places forgetting to think down
to the standards of American English. Sometimes it's tough to make
these compromises... ;)

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Juanma Barranquero]

> I'd imagine that instances of "colour" or "behaviour" are due to
> natives of Britain and other civilized places forgetting to think down
> to the standards of American English. Sometimes it's tough to make
> these compromises... ;)

Me, not being a native speaker, I tend to use color, behaviour,
center, and "-ize" endings (they're closer to Spanish; the "-ise" ones
look like a typo to my alien's eyes :). I have no preference for
"elevator" vs "lift", "subway" vs "underground"...

And of course I write "jail" unless I'm thinking of "The Ballad of
Reading Gaol"...

But anyway, the Emacs sources seem to be heavily "standardized"
towards one spelling, and I want to know if it's OK to fix a few
remaining non-standard spellings in docs. Color me OC :-)

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                    /L/e/k/t/u

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Glenn Morris]

[all off-topic]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> Me, not being a native speaker, I tend to use color, behaviour,
> center, and "-ize" endings (they're closer to Spanish; the "-ise" ones
> look like a typo to my alien's eyes :).

Actually, the OED recommends "-ize" in most cases, and I'm happy to go
along with them on that one. Apparently, "-ise" comes from the French
influence. Shudder.

> I have no preference for "elevator" vs "lift", "subway" vs
> "underground"...

Ugh, don't get me started...

I'm moving to the US in a few weeks, and will probably end up using
the most obscure British terms I can, by way of defence/retaliation.

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Richard Stallman]

    I'm moving to the US in a few weeks,

Out of the frying pan, into the fire ;-{.

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Stefan Monnier]

>> - color is ~ 99%
>> - behavior > 70%

> I'd imagine that instances of "colour" or "behaviour" are due to
> natives of Britain and other civilized places forgetting to think down
> to the standards of American English. Sometimes it's tough to make
> these compromises... ;)

It's just that, as is well known, people who speak American English tend to
be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits
transferring those redundant "u"s.
Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the Emacs
tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be downloaded, stored on
hard disks, archived, ... that's a substantial saving.


        Stefan

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Juanma Barranquero]

> Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the Emacs
> tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be downloaded, stored on
> hard disks, archived, ... that's a substantial saving.

I think this one's gonna go to my emacs-devel quotes archive (which
I'll install as etc/EMACS-HUMOUR or some such one of these days, per
RMS' request).

Anyway... I know that spending time pondering whether is better to
leave a few "behaviours" or fix them seems silly. What can I say, I
have a spelling-checker burnt into my low-level ROM code :)

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                    /L/e/k/t/u

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:42:12 +0200
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> 
> Is there any intent to maintain consistency in docstrings and texinfo
> docs wrt alternate spellings? (In fact, I think "horisontal" is
> incorrect, but I'll defer to native speakers...)
> 
> In code:
> - horizontal is used in almost 99%
> - color is ~ 99%
> - behavior > 70%
> 
> In the texinfo docs, "horisontal" and "colour" are not used;
> "behaviour" is about 7%.

AFAIK, the Emacs documentation follows the American spelling.  So
color, behavior and horizontal are correct.

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Richard Stallman]

    Is there any intent to maintain consistency in docstrings and texinfo
    docs wrt alternate spellings? (In fact, I think "horisontal" is
    incorrect, but I'll defer to native speakers...)

We use the US spellings.  color, behavior, and horizontal.
(Horisontal is simply incorrect.)

If you see the other spellings, please just fix them.

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Juanma Barranquero]

> We use the US spellings.  color, behavior, and horizontal.
> If you see the other spellings, please just fix them.

What about

(defcustom highlight-changes-colours
  "*Colours used by `highlight-changes-rotate-faces'.

Should we rename the variable and create an alias? :)

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                    /L/e/k/t/u

Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...

[Richard Stallman]

    (defcustom highlight-changes-colours
      "*Colours used by `highlight-changes-rotate-faces'.

    Should we rename the variable and create an alias? :)

I guess so.