2011/10/2 Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com>: > On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:51:14 -0400 (EDT), Weaver <wea...@riseup.net> wrote: >> >> It's all rather simple really! >> English is a language and 'American English' is a dialect. > > Whether "American English" is a language or a dialect is not > the point. The point is that the same words sometimes mean > different things to different people groups. >> >> Dialects, from time to time, have a way of becoming possessed of >> delusions of grandeur and, believing that there is an opportunity for >> world domination, create initiatives such as making it the default for >> Operating System installations and ongoing processing. > > That's ridiculous. Americans are sometimes perceived as being > arrogant by non-Americans (and unfortunately, sometimes justifiably > so), but this has nothing to do with "world domination". > *Something* has to be the default. Naturally, everyone would like > their own language to be the default, but that's not possible. > Since the vast majority of the people who started the Debian project, > including the founders, DEBra and IAN Murdock, were Americans, > naturally they chose American English as the default. It made > sense. > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell
Stephen United States of America. Does "of" tell you something? i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take "America" only for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of Geography. it is the same with North America without Mexico. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cafxkjqkw4wdj3btqvfosc4dujatronpu9txvznjdbmodye5...@mail.gmail.com
