Re: What is the language "British"?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Monday 28 August 2006 16:01, Ed Greshko wrote:
> David Fletcher wrote:
> > On Monday 28 August 2006 15:02, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >
> > I think you've got it the wrong way around. "Defence" is the correct
> > spelling.
>
> Both are correct.
So "dephence" would also be correct, would it? As would "Korekt"?

>
> Why is it that one side has to be "correct/right" and the other side
> "incorrect/wrong".  I don't get it.
The human brain has always been endowed with sufficient intelligence to be 
capable of making allowances for incorrect spelling, intentional or 
accidental. It can still dig out the correct meaning even if the text isn't 
absolutely correct. Fortunately. So it actually doesn't matter a damn if 
other nations choose to use incorrect spelling. I can tolerate it.

Now, if somebody were to alter some C language keywords in gcc, say 
change "break" to "exit" and "return" to "sendback" that would really foul 
things up. So we just don't do it.

Dave F

-- 
Registered Linux user number 393408

I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1
For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit:
http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux