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Not a cultural thing, S/he's is just quicker and thus more efficient.
(And exclusionary.)
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#154Next we need JS and CSS keywords in Esperanto, so that we're not privileging English-speaking regions over others.
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This site is exhausting sometimes. Y'all really have the ability to pedantically pick apart everything.
I agree, getting my comment flagged for nitpicking spelling in a post about nitpicking spelling is very exhausting. Even more so when the person I nitpicked replied to my comment and showed no issue with my nitpick.
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However I think that when Americans brought it back they missed opportunity to get rid of 'c' and put 'k' there instead. Is 'c' even used in English language? It usually is just 'k' or 's'.
Usually, but not always. Here you go—'cinch'. Could replace the first 'c' with s, but the second instance would be a little more difficult, as 'sh' has a softer pronunciation than 'ch' here, which itself is not as hard as 'j' (emoji) or 'ge' (rage).
Hmm yes I forgot about č case.
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I mean, wouldn't the U.S as a nation essentially be a bastard child of Britain, and thusly use a bastardized English?
Strangely, it's the insular dialects across Britain that have become more bastardised over time. The North American English dialects are far more conservative when it comes to evolution. As this BBC article[1] says: "[...] although there are plenty of variations, modern American pronunciation is generally more akin to at least the 18th-Century British kind than modern British pronunciation. Shakespearean English, thi…
I've heard more specifically the southern US dialect is probably closest. Not sure how deep or dirty in the south. I have about as hard a time understanding people with the US South accent as UK accents.
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#158Are you trying to tell me that the British gentleman Sir Tim Berners-Lee misspelled all these things when they went into the spec that CSS was based from? \s (sort of)
Tim? CSS was created by Håkon Wium Lie (norwegian) and Bert Bos (dutch).
Before CSS, HTML tags had color attributes, not colour attributes.
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The transition in spelling from "colos" to "color" did not have anything with culture, but it has correctly reflected a change in the pronunciation of the word. English is one of few languages where the relationship between the writing and the pronunciation of the vowels is mostly unpredictable, so knowing whether a word is spelled with "o" or with "ou" does not help you to know how to pronounce it. So for the case o…
> English is one of few languages where the relationship between the writing and the pronunciation of the vowels is mostly unpredictable, so knowing whether a word is spelled with "o" or with "ou" does not help you to know how to pronounce it. That is true, but it's a trade-off made for other benefits. Why is there a silent "g" in "sign"? Because it provides semantic meaning - it preserves its connection to works lik…
Does the dutch phrase "Acht en tachtig kleine kacheltje" contain a few "ough"? I am trying to figure out if your "ough" is like "ach", "och" or cough, rough, plough