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We prefer 'Free' English over your King's English, thank you very much.
Not the best day for Americans to chide others about having a king.
Ouch! Only because the truth hurts :(
BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
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Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I would have, since it refers to the Referer header it seems like it should follow the same spelling. It would be like CSS having a "color" attribute, but then doing something like "default-colour".
It’s actually more like CSS having a “colr” attribute and then doing something like “default-color”.
Guess you're not British then :)
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#93The man who got really pissed off by complete disconnection between spelling and pronunciation of words in English was George Bernard Shaw. Throughout his life he was an avid critic of the latin alphabet that was (and still is) used to represent spoken words. He was so frustrated that shortly before his death in 1950 Shaw put the creation of a new alphabet in his will backed by grant in aid. And thus the Shavian alph…
Not enjoyable to me. It elevates the pronunciation that Shaw used into the status of the one true English and marginalises any other spoken variants, dialects all over the globe. This is presumptuous and unfair.
How about this (equally unworkable) idea to achieve the goal of fixing the disconnect: instead of reforming the spelling, reform the pronunciation. Keep the writing as it is, but pronounce it to the rules (mostly: the letter/multigraph to phoneme map) which you find naturally in the majority of the other languages that use the Latin script. One can argue over the precise details and exceptions.
The good: it makes English much more regular and amenable to learners, all English speakers more or less affected in the same way The bad: the change is drastic so that movies from the time before reform need subtitles, pronunciation will start drifting apart soon and undo the reform efforts quickly
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Presumably you're implying an average over British pronunciation also, but if you ask me that's even more of a leap than over the American.
Like the other chap said, it basically sounds like a West Country accent.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#95Where's the LOICENCE.md? Is it MIT? If only there were an Oxford License. e: speling correction ;)
And then a LAHHSUNSE.md for US readers.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#96I 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
That's localisation
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#97Absolutely terrible. You should spell everything in American English when programming as like it or not the standard in every codebase and programming language going to be this. I am British but coding is not language, and trying to be clever like this is incredibly counterproductive especially in a diverse team. If you want British English to be used why shouldn’t the German on your team be able to use their languag…
I'm english, my team is english. We use english spelling throughout.
I'm not switching to american spelling to appease americans who aren't reading my code, in the same way as I'm not programming in french either
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#98bit mental that they didnt release this on chewsday
Or toosday for the US
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#99Calling British English (also known as just English) 'non-American English' is like calling an original a 'non-duplicate'.
American is basically English with typos, bad grammar, and bad style.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#100Calling British English (also known as just English) 'non-American English' is like calling an original a 'non-duplicate'. American is basically English with typos, bad grammar, and bad style.
Somebody must be remarkably thin skinned and with a poor sense of humour (the kind spelt with a 'U') to have downvoted you!