Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [gedmurphy] 25001: allow the Americans their incorrect spellings and add a correct UK resource file ; )
gedmurphy@svn.reactos.org wrote:
Author: gedmurphy Date: Thu Nov 30 22:23:19 2006 New Revision: 25001
URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=25001&view=rev Log: allow the Americans their incorrect spellings and add a correct UK resource file ;)
We (Canadians) also know how to spell properly :) en-CA please!
Out of curiosity.. what's the diff between en-CA and for example, en-UK and en-US? My girlfriend's laptop is en-US (she's from Toronto), and she doesn't see anything wrong with it.
On 11/30/06, Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca wrote:
gedmurphy@svn.reactos.org wrote:
Author: gedmurphy Date: Thu Nov 30 22:23:19 2006 New Revision: 25001
URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=25001&view=rev Log: allow the Americans their incorrect spellings and add a correct UK
resource file ;)
We (Canadians) also know how to spell properly :) en-CA please!
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Justin Haygood wrote:
Out of curiosity.. what's the diff between en-CA and for example, en-UK and en-US? My girlfriend's laptop is en-US (she's from Toronto), and she doesn't see anything wrong with it.
It's the spelling: UK: Colour US: Color centre, center defence, defense, dialogue, dialog, favourite, favorite humor, humour and so on.. and, there must be a distinct CA dialect too. I only know these 'famous' words of difference. google it for more.
talley
Horváth Róbert wrote:
Justin Haygood wrote:
Out of curiosity.. what's the diff between en-CA and for example, en-UK and en-US? My girlfriend's laptop is en-US (she's from Toronto), and she doesn't see anything wrong with it.
It's the spelling: UK: Colour US: Color centre, center defence, defense, dialogue, dialog, favourite, favorite humor, humour and so on.. and, there must be a distinct CA dialect too. I only know these 'famous' words of difference. google it for more.
After Alex noted about the Canadian version, I had a quick look for the English Canadian sublang ID, but I couldn't find anything. Do English speaking Canadians use the US language?
Ged Murphy wrote: ...
After Alex noted about the Canadian version, I had a quick look for the English Canadian sublang ID, but I couldn't find anything. Do English speaking Canadians use the US language?
While things may be different now, and may vary by location, but from my observations when I lived in British Columbia (mid 80s to early 90s); yes and no; the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ('re' instead of 'er', 'our' instead of 'or', and words pronounced like bean for 'been' and shedule for 'schedule') but a teacher would not mark wrong (and my dictionaries include both) the use of U.S. spelling (er [center vs centre], or [color vs colour], etc). There may actually be an official ruling though, since english (and french) is actually a national language in Canada unlike english in the U.S.
Jeremy
Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
Ged Murphy wrote: ...
After Alex noted about the Canadian version, I had a quick look for the English Canadian sublang ID, but I couldn't find anything. Do English speaking Canadians use the US language?
the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ...
I was referring to the the Windows sublang id. UK uses LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK US uses LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
After an initial quick search here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/indexsrv/ht... I couldn't find anything for Canada, however I've just stumbled across LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CAN
Ged.
Ged Murphy wrote:
the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ...
That was my point when I said "We know how to spell too".
My girlfriend uses only US spelling for everything..... (but then again, she is in Toronto, so it may vary per province or region)
On 12/2/06, Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca wrote:
Ged Murphy wrote:
the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ...
That was my point when I said "We know how to spell too".
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On 12/2/06, Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca wrote:
Ged Murphy wrote:
the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ...
That was my point when I said "We know how to spell too".
OK so its time to revise my statement, only the British could come up with something like a silent d in Wednesday and only they and the Canadians would dare call it proper.
Ged Murphy wrote:
Horváth Róbert wrote:
Justin Haygood wrote:
Out of curiosity.. what's the diff between en-CA and for example, en-UK and en-US? My girlfriend's laptop is en-US (she's from Toronto), and she doesn't see anything wrong with it.
It's the spelling: UK: Colour US: Color centre, center defence, defense, dialogue, dialog, favourite, favorite humor, humour and so on.. and, there must be a distinct CA dialect too. I only know these 'famous' words of difference. google it for more.
After Alex noted about the Canadian version, I had a quick look for the English Canadian sublang ID, but I couldn't find anything. Do English speaking Canadians use the US language?
I think Canadian is like Australia. Both UK and USA are supported. So centre and center are right here these days.
Peter Dolding
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Your right, I don't see a problem either.
Peter
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