On 26/01/2014 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
This is an international forum, and English an international language
with many slight differences between variations and dialects. Even in
American English alone, there are ambiguous terms. "Coke" could mean a
beverage by the Coca-Cola company, a generic or rival cola beverage, a
generic carbonated beverage of arbitrary flavour, an illegal drug, or a
type of coal.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/
Somehow Americans cope with that. They can learn to cope with the many
flavours of brackets as well :-)
Still my favourite
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16285/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-expression-we-can-table-this
as it caused a row between UK and US commanders during WWII.
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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