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Re: Doc fixes - US vs. British spelling
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- From: Anthony.Iano-Fletcher@xxxxxxx
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- Subject: Re: Doc fixes - US vs. British spelling
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:25:07 -0400
- In-reply-to: <9906171233.AA33604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from Peter Stephenson on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 02:33:12PM +0200
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Hi
> > I certainly prefer it. So much computer documentation is written in
> > American that Im used to it but it would be nice to have some in
> > British english.
>
> Wize guy, eh?
Not wise, just hopeful. :-)
> If you want a decision, then we'd better stick with `-ize' (apart from
> -wise, of course). Many of the changes were necesssary because I spelled
> it the other way (I can't rememember how Sven does). The authorities agree
> that -ize has a perfectly good pedigree on both sides of the Atlantic,
> although other oceans may be a different matter.
C'est la vie.
Basically if someone wants to write the manual (for which Im am very
grateful) then they can use any dialect they want.
> On the other hand, I'm not sure I can bring myself to face `honor' and
> `color'. Luckily, they don't occour, err, occur; we'd better keep it that
> way to avoid an incident.
Didnt I see mention of colour support in zsh?
> (Gibt's Freiwilligen fuer eine deutsche Fassung??? Auch Plattdeutsch?)
Ah.... German, French, Italian, Russion, etc versions would be nice.
How does the Babelfish site
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
do on the zsh manual?
Oh well, back to work....
Anthony
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