Re: What is the language "British"?

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Hi Mate;

You misunderstand my question.

On Tue, 2006-29-08 at 16:54 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:56 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Some day it would be interesting and fun to get comments on why each
> > of these forms of English is needed in a computer.
> 
> Because when you use your computer, you want it to use your language,
> not someone else's.  Second to that annoyance, you see kids in your
> country incorrectly spelling things, because they're using the language
> of another country, learning it from their computer.  
> 
> Some time ago our newspapers started using American spelling, which *is*
> "incorrect" to do in Australia.  One reason given was that it was a
> complete pain trying to work around the American spell checker.
> 
As a Canadian, I thoroughly understand what a pain in the ass it is to
get stuck with somebody else's spelling.  What I was trying to convey in
the rather light vain of this thread, is that we have seen postings
about the difference between UK and US English.  It would be fun to hear
about some of the main differences between and amongst the remaining
dozen brands of English.

-- 
Regards Bill

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