[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)

[TJ]

On 07/26/2012 02:43 AM, Max Quarterpleen wrote:
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> When I say NY, there is of course only one thing I mean, The City. :P
> And I haven't lived there for more than 20 years, so my slang might be a
> bit dated.
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Sigh. Yes, I know. Happens all the time. You'd be surprised at how many 
US residents think the entire state of NY is covered with concrete 
buildings and asphalt. Especially when you hear that agriculture is the 
state's largest industry. But it's the cross we Upstaters are forced to 
bear...


>     Lord knows I can't speak for all Americans, but for my own part I
>     could easily adapt if British were the default language, rather than
>     American. I have traveled to Canada and have cruised through web
>     sites that used British spelling, and have felt no offense (Oops
>     again. *offence,* isn't it?) at seeing it. If it will help
>     international relations, I'm more than willing to exist with
>     spellings that look odd to me. After a while, I doubt they'd still
>     look so odd.
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> That isn't even on the table for discussion. We simply cannot change the
> hard-coded default language in the code. We need our original programmer
> to do that, and chances are that even he won't be able to.
> The discussion is about having an en_GB "translation".

OK, but do we really have to be so serious about it? I need a little fun 
in my life from time to time so I remain sane.

TJ