Kernel engineers fighting over the letter "U"

[suselinux]

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a mail list shows the conversations between engineers over wether to spell flavour with or with out the "U"

frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use American English.  Only one country uses American English, all other countries use ........English.

any thoughts??

[slvadcjelli42]

My thought is "Why were a bunch of engineers arguing about flavo(u)rs in the first place?"    

(Also, as long as you're on that topic, how do you people spell grey [well, you can see how I spell it]? I've been wondering about that for some reason.)

[Laukev7]

Grey. Flavour.

British spelling. Always.

[ August 11, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
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frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use American English.  Only one country uses American English, all other countries use ........English.

frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use English.  Only the most important country in the world uses American English.
that is soooooo stupid

In my Patriotic fever I think they should use American English.  But personally, in my english class I like using those weirdo british words.

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:

frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use American English.  Only one country uses American English, all other countries use ........English.

Oh puleeze... next you will be saying we should all use a consistent system of measurments based on powers of ten with easy to convert prefixes like milli and centi and that has freezing and boiling points of water defined as 0 and 100 degrees.

CRIPES.


 

[kibawarior]

wow come on people american english is like a coliquail(hope I spelt it right)version of british english. have as many languages as possible in a linux distro british english is used in more countries than just england.

Its used in india, pakistan, sri lanka all european countries japan chzek republic china all of them use british english aswell as their native languages.

lets put this in to prespective the rest of the world uses british english only america uses its coliquil version of british english.

why does america always want everyone to make alowances for their needs i don't make an american spell and talk british english so why must i and the rest of the world use there's

In summary this argument is pointless you can't just have british or u.s. english you must use all languages.

[hm_murdock]

go with colour

because much like armour, it's just cooler than bland american english

[Pissed_Macman]

Who cares??? It's just a bunch of words! Jeezus I can't believe we're having this conversation!!!! (and who the hell puts an O in maneuver??)

[cahult]

How odd it may sound, american english is actually the right way to spell english, historically. It

[Laukev7]

quote:Originally posted by cahult:
How odd it may sound, american english is actually the right way to spell english, historically. It

[cahult]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:


Not quite. flavour, favour, perhaps, but not labour, parlour, humour, armour, glamour, saviour, ardour or endeavour. And don't forget civilise, which comes from French  civiliser, or tyre, from Old English tyren, or encyclopaedia. Most of American spelling comes from spelling simplification proposed by Webster, like 'practice' as a verb instead of practise, or 'civilize', or 'gage' instead of gauge, 'theater' instead of theatre or even 'tung' instead of 'toungue'.

Well, Webster must be right, eh?  The words you are quoting were just entering english back then. Some were quite new, some did actually enter american english first. But you

[Laukev7]

quote: Either way, the way to say words in american english is more like the english spoken in Britain 300-500 years ago.

So does French in Quebec, but just because a dialect resembles a language spoken centuries ago doesn't mean it's the 'correct' one. And you don't specify to which dialect in England you compare American English.  If you compare American English to, say, Cockney, then you may be right. But saying that American English is more similar to Shakespearan English than 'british' english is too broad a claim.

[billy_gates]

I think that they should be spelled as the author spelled them.  So if the author is not American they would spell it however they like (probably with the u).  Then Americans would spell it however they like (probably without the u).  There I think I fixed our dilemma which shouldn't even be happening.

[kibawarior]

wait what are you all trying to say?
british english was the basis for us english basically americans were to lazy to spell or talk like the brits so they came up with their own form of english which the correct term is coliqual

us english is not english its stupid why do americans always have to be soooo lazy, okay now i'm ranting.

please just forget about it you must have this choice even though its like cockneys making their own dictionaries and damanding putting it in to software. so if you think thats stupid think its stupid but let everything be there's no point ok

[cahult]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:


So does French in Quebec, but just because a dialect resembles a language spoken centuries ago doesn't mean it's the 'correct' one. And you don't specify to which dialect in England you compare American English.  If you compare American English to, say, Cockney, then you may be right. But saying that American English is more similar to Shakespearan English than 'british' english is too broad a claim.

Right me if I