Re: What does English mean?

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcormail de>]

Am 04.09.2001 13:16:17 schrieb(en) Rikke D . Giles:
> This does come across as xenophobic.  I'd imagine Redhat put this into
> their distribution because more people (in numbers) might expect 'English'
> to mean American English, and wished to clear up any possible mistakes if

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if I rember my school times correctly,
the biggest english speaking communities are India and Nigeria. I have no idea
about the subtle differences (I am german, and my english is *really* bad...),
but I guess it's more British than American english in these regions. So it
might be nice to make a minority (the americans) the default, but IMHO
`british english' would be the more logical choice. Anyway, I *don't* think
this would be xenophobic...

Cheers, Albrecht.


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