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Subject: Re: Languages British vs English
From: John Kane <jrkrideau () yahoo ! ca>
Date: 2008-03-10 13:41:41
Message-ID: 521315.1377.qm () web32803 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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I'd agree with English (US) since it is not the normal
spelling that is used in Canada. Of course we don't
use the UK spelling either. :)
--- David Romano <romanod@math.grinnell.edu> wrote:
> I would concur and weigh in in favor "English (US)"
> since British English
> is more likely the official language of the
> English-speaking Caribbean.
>
> David Romano
>
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote:
>
> > On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> >> On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson
> <phillip.ferguson@strath.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>> Why is there an English language option and
> British language option?
> >>> What is the difference? Is this an American vs
> English English?
> >>>
> >>> Could shouldn't these be label correctly as
> this is very confusing,
> >>> as far as I know there is no British language!
> >
> >> What always perturbed me is that LyX actually
> contains an entry for
> >> the "American" language. Politically correct
> formulations (e.g.
> >> English (the US); English (the UK)) would look
> much nicer.
> >
> > Well, for me the names of the English variants
> were always
> > "British English" and "American English".
> >
> > My suggestion for the Document>Settings>Languaes
> list would be
> >
> > English (American) # or English (US)
> > English (British)
> >
> > in a similar way to e.g.
> >
> > Chinese (new spelling)
> > Chinese (traditional)
> >
> > This way, the English variants are close to
> another in the
> > alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice
> by offering
> > alternatives in one place.
> >
> > It would also make sufficiently clear that
> American English is
> >
> > - not *the* English dialect
> > - not *the* language of the american continent
> >
> >
> > Günter
> >
> >
> >
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