Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:52:56 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: THANK YOU for flavors! (fwd) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712080950320.41281@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20171207045615.GA78437@eureka.lemis.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712071102160.35694@aneurin.horsfall.org> <20171207045615.GA78437@eureka.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 11:02:51 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:01:51 +1100 (EST), Dave Horsfall wrote: > > Since we're being pedantic, note that this should be AEDT. > EST is ambiguous, but in general refers to the east coast of > the USA. > >>> Serious question: is "FLAVOUR" accepted as an alias, or >>> does the rest of the world have to put up with American >>> spelling? > > Think of it as a keyword. No national origin necessary. > > We really have better things to think of. Well... and using American spellings is the custom, due to the project having started in the US. For those who believe that a stated standard is better than no standard at all: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-guidelines.html
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