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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    RE: Languages British vs English
From:       "William R. Buckley" <wrb () wrbuckley ! com>
Date:       2008-03-14 23:15:29
Message-ID: 004001c88629$4c1e62a0$2f01a8c0 () snhqpop4320
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 Actually, I have had a number of discussions with British nationals, and to a
person, they suggest that American English is generally practiced better, 
with a high degree of attention to the details of grammar, as compared with
their British counterparts.  It would perhaps be rude of me to mention names,
so let me just say that some of these British persons are well ensconced
in UK higher education, being professors and journal editors.

wrb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Charles de Miramon
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 4:47 AM
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: Languages British vs English
> 
> 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?
> 
> Hyphenation rules are different in British English and in 
> American English and the formatting of the date (used in the 
> macro \today) is not the same.
> 
> >>
> >>  Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very 
> confusing, 
> >> as  far as I know there is no British language!
> 
> I guess British think that American English is just English 
> with mistakes...
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> For LaTeX, Austrian is also a dialect of German and Flemish a 
> dialect of Dutch. Time to start a revolution ;-) 
> 
> Charles
> --
> http://www.kde-france.org
> 
> 
> 

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