bit mental that they didnt release this on chewsday
BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
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Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another fun fact... almost all "American spelling" came from Britain, i.e. variants that died out in Old Blighty in the 1800s. Accent as well. For the most part, they were the ones that changed! There's more—the -ize spelling comes directly from the old Greek spelling. -ise and -re were forced-on/taken from French. The British like to taunt the French, but apparently have forgotten about the spelling thing, and criti…
It’s a common misconception that American accents have changed less than British accents. Both accents have changed. There’s a pretty obvious example that American accents have changed in the fact that many American accents have vowel mergers that result in pronunciation mergers of syllables with different spellings that aren’t merged in non-American accents. Wikipedia gives the example odd-facade-thawed, which all r…
There are folks that do Shakespeare in the original accent, and it sounds modestly closer to the "average" American pronunciation than modern British.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Original_Pronun...
Believe I saw a video on it on youtube or similar, where they have audio as well.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#43> Fixes CSS to use non-bastardised spellings The last thing I need a tool to do is to spread divisiveness.
Then learn tò speak proper English!
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
S/he's wrong, simple as that. "The particular spatio-temporal version of speech that I grew up with is correct, and all others are bastardised" is not a defensible or - frankly - interesting position. Chaucer would find virtually all modern English to be debased; Bede would wince at Chaucer's English; and so on, forever. Nothing fruitful comes from cultivating arrogance towards the language of others. It is just as m…
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Not a cultural thing, S/he's is just quicker and thus more efficient.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#45Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#46Kind of funny the animus the author has against US spellings. It's nothing but shade to refer to US spellings as 'simplified' and UK spellings as 'traditional', regardless of the merit of the argument for doing so.
I can't imagine anyone will really need to use this, but it seems to have let the author work out some issues.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
S/he's wrong, simple as that. "The particular spatio-temporal version of speech that I grew up with is correct, and all others are bastardised" is not a defensible or - frankly - interesting position. Chaucer would find virtually all modern English to be debased; Bede would wince at Chaucer's English; and so on, forever. Nothing fruitful comes from cultivating arrogance towards the language of others. It is just as m…
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This site is exhausting sometimes. Y'all really have the ability to pedantically pick apart everything.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#48Kind of funny the animus the author has against US spellings. It's nothing but shade to refer to US spellings as 'simplified' and UK spellings as 'traditional', regardless of the merit of the argument for doing so. I can't imagine anyone will really need to use this, but it seems to have let the author work out some issues.
I think it's a play on the Chinese language having Traditional/ Simplified versions. I'm choosing to take this repo as tongue-in-cheek, which is hard to really determine online...
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#49I believe that some people's actual full-time job is to translate software from US English to British English. I wonder what that job feels like after the thousandth time you've replaced color with colour and neighbor with neighbour
The AI revolution will take care of that job
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#50Kind of funny the animus the author has against US spellings. It's nothing but shade to refer to US spellings as 'simplified' and UK spellings as 'traditional', regardless of the merit of the argument for doing so. I can't imagine anyone will really need to use this, but it seems to have let the author work out some issues.
Arr, only pirrates have trru spellingg
LC_ALL=en_PR