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suselinux:
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a mail list shows the conversations between engineers over wether to spell flavour with or with out the "U"

frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use American English.  Only one country uses American English, all other countries use ........English.

any thoughts??

slvadcjelli42:
My thought is "Why were a bunch of engineers arguing about flavo(u)rs in the first place?"   :D  

(Also, as long as you're on that topic, how do you people spell grey [well, you can see how I spell it]? I've been wondering about that for some reason.)

Laukev7:
Grey. Flavour.

British spelling. Always.

[ August 11, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
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frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use American English.  Only one country uses American English, all other countries use ........English.
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frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use English.  Only the most important country in the world uses American English.
that is soooooo stupid

In my Patriotic fever I think they should use American English.  But personally, in my english class I like using those weirdo british words.

mobrien_12:

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:

frankly I think it's stupid, Linux is an international project, yet people want to use American English.  Only one country uses American English, all other countries use ........English.

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Oh puleeze... next you will be saying we should all use a consistent system of measurments based on powers of ten with easy to convert prefixes like milli and centi and that has freezing and boiling points of water defined as 0 and 100 degrees.

CRIPES.


  :D

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