Re: v0.3 of Styleguide / Colour

[Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu>]

On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 07:48, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> Alexander Kirillov wrote:
>
> > - we should use American English: "color", not "colour". I am not saying
> >   that American is better than British (I am Russian so I am neutral)
> >   but we definitely need to use the same dialect of English throughout
> >   the   docs, and it seems that more people prefer American. British
> >   can create localized version of the docs in locale en_GB
>
>
> I guess we should create a version for locale en_CA (or what would be 
> the code for Canada). We choose words like the Americans but spell them 
> like British.

So I'm not alone! 

I grew up in Brussels (but with my last name, I'm pretty american) so I
mix and match according to perculiar rules. It does not hurt
communication in any way for the sections I write to have a french
flavour to their english. We are a diverse community and write like one.
I don't object in the slightest if your spell check sweep replaces my
words with your spelling but I'm not likely to change the way I type. 

I need to visit Canada since they sound as confused as me! Oh and then I
could create a personal locale en_LOST. :-)

--adrian custer