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Thread: Pregidous against UK & Canada!

  1. Jan 29th, 2001, 07:56 PM #1
    Sastraxi
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    I feel, that in word, they are pregidous towards any non-"US" english speaking countries. If you change the language to UK english and default it, it will switch back to "US" english everytime! I think we should make a stand! (or maybe, just ask microsoft for a patch)

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  2. Jan 29th, 2001, 09:30 PM #2
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    Well..

    What do you expect it to be...esperanto??? Russian?? maybe Hebrew?.Micro$oft is located in the U.S. after all.
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  3. Jan 29th, 2001, 10:08 PM #3
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    Wow! That many Englisheses?

    Live and learn something new almost every day. I thought there was English and Americanese. My Windows 98 claims to recognize 9 versions of English, and Corel WordPerfect recognizes four.

    It seemed to me that the English were too chauvinistic to switch to Americanese, which I thought they called colonial English. I figured that the Americans (like I am) were too arrogant and mono-linguistic to know that there was any difference between English and Americanese. Hell, most of us do not spell well enough to notice the difference between words like honor/color and honour/colour. I thought all the other Englishesers spoke either Americanese or English.
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  4. Jan 30th, 2001, 01:32 AM #4
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    It's an interesting but little-known fact that what you refer to as 'Americanese' is often the original form of English. Words like 'specialize' used to be spelt with a Z here in Britain, too, but at some point the style changed and we now use 'specialise'. I'm not sure how much of the differences this accounts for, but it's not just American English that's changed.
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