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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by JimDabell »

dijit wrote: post #13

> Here's the thing. No. Hahaha I decided to have a bit of fun with the Accept-Lang header, if you're british it shows a totally different version of my blog including changing my name to a more british variant, a background including tea, phone booths, kings guards, busses, bulldogs and flags... and the colour scheme changes to RWB. https://blog.dijit.sh The original plan was actually to write two variants of every b…

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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by john_strinlai »

card_zero wrote: post #32
egwor wrote: post #14

I think that by exploring how different cultures and languages communicate about things opens the mind. There are concepts that can't be easily/succinctly explained in English but can in other languages. I think that we should be encouraging such breadth of thought because it allows us to appreciate new aspects of the world we live in.

Nobody's ever been able to explain to me what those concepts are, so I don't believe it.

its the subject of dozens of listacles.

waldeinsamkeit, saudade, ya’aburnee, etc.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by [deleted] »

yde_java wrote: post #7

Being proud of your culture including your language and exercising it, at the risk of readers not understanding everything immediately, is not racism. In the worst case, a non-British gets curious about one expression or the other and looks it up. That's engagement.

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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by [deleted] »

xg15 wrote: post #29
dijit wrote: post #13

> Here's the thing. No. Hahaha I decided to have a bit of fun with the Accept-Lang header, if you're british it shows a totally different version of my blog including changing my name to a more british variant, a background including tea, phone booths, kings guards, busses, bulldogs and flags... and the colour scheme changes to RWB. https://blog.dijit.sh The original plan was actually to write two variants of every b…

As a non-brit I feel discriminated against by being unable to see that amazing page.

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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by dabber »

card_zero wrote: post #32
egwor wrote: post #14

I think that by exploring how different cultures and languages communicate about things opens the mind. There are concepts that can't be easily/succinctly explained in English but can in other languages. I think that we should be encouraging such breadth of thought because it allows us to appreciate new aspects of the world we live in.

Nobody's ever been able to explain to me what those concepts are, so I don't believe it.

Family relationships are the first thing that come to my mind.

In Spanish for example, consuegro and consuegra refer to the father and mother of your child's spouse.

The Spanish words succinctly encode that relationship while English requires verbally traversing the family tree.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by vitally3643 »

blenderob wrote: post #46

I read several blogs that use British English, including this OP's blog. Some of my favourite blogs in my RSS reader are British English blogs, or at least they use British English spellings and grammar. I find their use of the English language very charming and funny in a unique way. It surprises me that anyone would feel entitled to ask a blogger to change the variety of English they use. American English is only o…

Certain cultures teach that diversity is a bad thing to be feared and extinguished. Diversity is only a good thing when your mind has been poisoned by "education" and "experience".

It requires an open mind to see diverse experiences as a good thing, and certain cultures think having citizens with open minds is an unprofitable way to run a society.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by mghackerlady »

dukeyukey wrote: post #44
ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #6

sips tea

If I (a Brit) moves to the US, I'd absolutely get a Yorkshire-branded tea caddy filled with teabags on my desk. Sometimes you need to live up to the stereotypes.

I've always wondered, do that many brits actually like tea or is it more of a cultural thing? I've very rarely had a tea I like (though, I've never had one I actively disliked), and I can't imagine that's the case for most people but it makes me wonder
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