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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by mghackerlady »

pjmlp wrote: post #78

Fully agree with the author, just like I write Portuguese in European Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese, African Portuguese or any other variation, just because our population is smaller. Incidently I always change automatic language correction tools to English GB, I live in this side of the Atlantic, and that is variant I learnt while growing up.

The Portuguese speakers really ought to sort out how their language is supposed to work, it was fine before the internet but now I can only see the differences causing trouble

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by mghackerlady »

PeterWhittaker wrote: post #333

TFA mentions s/Philosopher/Sorcerer/ in HP, which I confess to having confused me greatly (are Americans THAT ignorant that they are unaware of the concept?) and pleased me, since the Canadian publishing house stuck with en-GB throughout, AFAICT. As a multilingual Canadian capable of understanding most English and French accents, I'm grateful for those who preserve and persevere with their home patois. Funnily enough…

It reminds me of the game localisations of the 90s, where all too often they decided a game was just too Japanese for our small American brains to comprehend

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by mghackerlady »

cyberpunk wrote: post #71
dukeyukey wrote: post #44

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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.

May be decorative only —- Isn’t it due due to their wimpy electricity that it takes forever to boil a kettle and that’s why everyone gets coffee externally? Or, absolute horror, they microwave teacups…. Or has the situation improved? :)

So, about the electricity bit. We absolutely can do 240v, we just don't make tea enough for it to be worth it.

Also, I've never understood the disdain for microwave boiling. It's just easier 90% of the time

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by chrismorgan »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #332
chrismorgan wrote: post #315

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I started writing something a while ago with preliminary title “Do en and en-US, not en and en-GB”. If you cluster English dialects by various characteristics, you’ll end up with en-US as a clear outlier. I believe that, if you’re going to divide English into two camps, the best is “English (International)” and “English (US)”. Canadian English is the one that’s closest to US English, but even it works at least as wel…

> preliminary title “Do en and en-US, You mean "English" and "English (Simplified)"?

Some of the spellings are simplified, but the rest of it (units and such) is complicationified.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by penguin_booze »

prima-facie wrote: post #149

If you are from Europe, even if you're not living in the UK, the en-GB locale will feel a lot more familiar to you than the en-US one. It uses the dd-mm-yyyy date format like the rest of Europe, the start of the week is on Monday (vs Sunday in the US), the default paper size is A4 (vs US letter), measurement defaults are metric (indeed UK roads use imperial, but the default is otherwise metric), the time format uses…

> It uses the dd-mm-yyyy date format like the rest of Europe

Everywhere sane uses a monotonic order: either increasing or decreasing units. Americans had to be different, somehow - it's a compulsion.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by jowsie »

ethersteeds wrote: post #237
throwaway2037 wrote: post #205

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I don't understand the reference. I looked it up here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2617#section-4.3 4.3 Limited Use Nonce Values The Digest scheme uses a server-specified nonce to seed the generation of the request-digest value (as specified in section 3.2.2.1 above). As shown in the example nonce in section 3.2.1, the server is free to construct the nonce such that it may only be used from a particular…

In British slang, "nonce" is a highly offensive term for a sex offender, particularly one who has harmed children. It is considered derogatory and should be used with caution.

I'm guessing this is very context/region dependant. Calling someone a nonce as a bit of banter would be more acceptable than calling them a paedophile when I was growing up. I assume because using the officially recognised term made your accusations seem more ernest, though I've never actually thought much about it before.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by jerf »

mattlondon wrote: post #219
jerf wrote: post #97

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I've had a weblog since 1999. I know where the word comes from. Try rereading in light of that; if you need more hint consider why the author's spellchecker might put a red wiggly underline under the letters "color".

No, it's always been blog in en-GB. Try reading in light of basic facts, if you need more hint consider if a spell checker might put a wiggly underline under the letters "loug".

Consult BigTTYGothGF's reply to my post for more cluestick. (If I'm channeling the late 1990s might as well go all the way and pull out some dead lingo.)

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by jerf »

BigTTYGothGF wrote: post #137
jerf wrote: post #35

"This blog is written in en-GB" Excuse me, but I believe you meant to say this bloug is written in en-GB. More seriously... you know, 30 or 40 years ago, I can sort of understand this attitude. Today, in the amount of time it takes you to complain, you could have popped the word into Google or something instead and learned what it was instead. Probably in less than the amount of time it took you to complain for an on…

> bloug * blogue

I stand corrected.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by sgt »

ChrisRR wrote: post #209
sgt wrote: post #177

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Correct, generally speaking they will have their own default locales on their computer and local sites will be in e.g. French but going to Instagram it will render in US English - unless the app has been translated, which it probably has so it's not the best example.

I've just checked my instagram and it's using the UK spelling "favourites"

Where are you, by the way?

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by chrismorgan »

dofm wrote: post #342
chrismorgan wrote: post #330

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I have never heard of a thing called “Indian Standard English”, nor (as an Australian who has moved to India) does it sound a very realistic concept. Can’t find any search results for it as a phrase, either.

Sometimes used as a term in linguistics. Put it in quotes: "Indian Standard English" and you will see plenty of results. https://www.google.com/?q=%22Indian+Standard+English%22 https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/eww.24... It doesn't mean a written standard exists. Maybe it's called Standard Indian English or just Indian English in other contexts; I'm only using a term I've seen used.

For comparison: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22indian+standard+english%22>, exactly zero results.
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