Its all english, and it's all readable.  Lets just all get along!

-- Ron
povray.org admin team wrote in message
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>"Tom Galvin" <tga### [at] dataforgecom> wrote:
>
>>>We (the collective 'we' here being, I suppose, any non-American English
>>>speaker, though I can hardly profess to speak for all of them) don't mind
>>>Americans changing the language in the least
>>
>>If we exclude the English and the Americans then we are left with the
Kiwis,
>>Aussies, Irish, Welsh and the Scots. Any one who has heard those
>>interpretations of English should have little to say about American
English.
>
>Precisely. So we don't complain about their english, just about the fact
that a
>few of them rudely complain about _ours_.
>
>This is the whole point, one that some readers have failed to 'get'. We're
all
>welcome to do whatever we like to our own regional variations of English.
But
>none of us should go about implying that someone else lacks intelligence
(as
>Jason did to us) because that other person uses their own, regional,
variation
>of English spelling (regardless of whether or not it is 'true' English as
the
>English spell it).
>
>No-one here has said the Americans have it wrong, and the
Aussies/Irish/Kiwis
>etc. have it right. Just that we're not wrong, either (yes, it's possible
for
>both of us to be right).
>
>Had I been an Australian user of a software package and had written to an
>American firm rudely questioning their intelligence because they spelt
minimise
>with a 'z' then I would have been just as guilty. But I won't, because I
know
>that Americans have their own spelling and I respect that fact.
>
>I've never yet personally come across a software package that does menu and
>documentation spelling substitutions based on the country settings - not
even
>Microsoft Word [a likely candidate] does that. [FWIW Word does correctly
mark
>words such as 'minimize' as incorrectly spelt, and suggests the 's'
variation,
>when set to British English].
>
>Therefore, software (for the time being) is likely to continue to come out
with
>its own regional spelling in documentation and menus, and there's little
that
>can be done about it except just accept it.

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