Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:19:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell), jfieber@indiana.edu, chadf@bookcase.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Misspelling in lib/libutil/login_cap.3 [w/ patch] Message-ID: <199804131819.LAA00543@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:54:19 %2B0200." <199804131754.TAA01655@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
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> > Sorry, at school I was taught English, not American. > > So was I: That's debateable. > - In the dictionary there is a section about American versus British > spelling. They don't even mentrion ``-ize'' or ``-ise''. > So to me it appears that ``-ise'' is an Australian speciality, neither > common in Great Britain nor in the US. Wrong again. If you want to be ridiculously pedantic, the use of 's' over 'z' became common in Britain moderately recently, and the trend didn't spread to the Americas. You can argue that 'z' is historically correct, but archaic. However, the real guide here should be style(9), which explicitly requires style to follow the conventions established in a file being modified. If the manpage in question was written by an Australian using commonly accepted Australian spellings, then you can expect 's' to be used over 'z', and this should not be altered. > Wolfgang, an amazed German. I can't see why you're amazed; you were taught English in a country raped and then financed by Americans. I'm surprised they let you speak German at all. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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