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BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
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Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#162Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#163Kind 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 second that animus. An example I had to endure in Britain recently was bus adverts for an Apple movie starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney called “WOLFS”. At first I thought I must not be seeing an apostrophe… but then… the horror. For speakers of English (simplified) who can’t understand, the plural of wolf is wolves.
It’s the same in both, it was deliberate. Wikipedia lists a potential reason.
> The title “Wolfs”, a grammatically incorrect plural of Wolf, is an apparent reference to the character of Winston Wolfe (aka “Mr Wolf”) - an iconic “fixer” in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfs_(film)
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
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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…
I find it ironic that you're making an argument about how language evolves in the same sentence that you insist on an awkward "s/he" instead of just using a singular "they" (or if you're Richard Stallman, whatever neopronoun he fancies, I forgot what it is)
there exists nothing else other than a she or a he. Executive Order was signed more than a month ago, have you not heard?
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#165Right, so this is a way to bend the world to your will. The reason css properties have a standardized spelling is not to make fun of british spelling, but to have a standard that everyone could follow for interopabilitys sake. If youre such a british language purist that you go this route, you will need to port/retrofit this hack to your future projects or you will once more have to debug why ”colour” doesnt do anyth…
It's just a bit of fun, it's not meant to be taken seriously. On the other hand, R supports both British and American spellings, and I've never seen anyone confused by it.
https://bookdown.org/yih_huynh/Guide-to-R-Book/trouble.html#...
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#166Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#167Earlier 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…
I find it ironic that you're making an argument about how language evolves in the same sentence that you insist on an awkward "s/he" instead of just using a singular "they" (or if you're Richard Stallman, whatever neopronoun he fancies, I forgot what it is)
And I find it totes ironical that you'd respond to a post advocating against language prescriptivism, and intolerance of other modes of speaking and writing, by trying to pick on variants you dislike. Point goes whoosh.
Also, I "insist" on nothing, you're the only one with a chip on your shoulder about pronouns here.
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Why would you assume that the open source project in question would be written in US english? Hell, why assume that the project even be written in english at all? There's more non-english speakers in the world than english speakers
Because if you want your project to be well used and contributed to you’re probably writing it in English. I don’t see too many French or Arabic or Chinese or British English open source projects that have taken off, but I’m happy to be proven wrong… Even large open source projects built in China like Ant Design have documentation and interfaces in American English because even if you don’t like it it’s the correct d…
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Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second that animus. An example I had to endure in Britain recently was bus adverts for an Apple movie starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney called “WOLFS”. At first I thought I must not be seeing an apostrophe… but then… the horror. For speakers of English (simplified) who can’t understand, the plural of wolf is wolves.
It’s the same in both, it was deliberate. Wikipedia lists a potential reason. > The title “Wolfs”, a grammatically incorrect plural of Wolf, is an apparent reference to the character of Winston Wolfe (aka “Mr Wolf”) - an iconic “fixer” in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfs_(film)
I don’t buy it.
Re: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
#170I came to highlight the similarities to Spiffing ( https://github.com/visualidiot/Spiffing ) but I note that the author already did that. Always funny to poke a little fun at ourselves.
I do like Spiffing's !please keyword.