[plug] en_GB kde i18n

Aunty Jack delilah at iinet.net.au
Mon Jul 23 21:46:33 WST 2001


yeah, g'day john

personally, i much prefer "programme". it's the original spelling and it 
stands against the creeping americani"z"ation of our language. same goes for 
"theorise" and lots of other words that n. americans spell with zeds where 
there ought to be esses.

aunty.

On Saturday 14 July 2001 15:37, John Knight wrote:
> Hi all! Some of you know me already but I'm the coordinator for the English
> Great Britain Translating Team for KDE. As en_GB (English Great Britain) is
> the language that will now be used by default (instead of US) for KDE users
> in the UK, Australia, NZ etc, I need to know the opinions from fellow users
> from time to time.
>
> The question I have today is would you prefer to see program or programme?
> I learnt German as a child and hence 'programme' makes more sense to me but
> the majority of people aren't the same as myself in that area.
>
> At present we are finished for KDE 2.2 and we have left 'program' alone for
> the time being but if others like my team members want to see programme
> instead, we'd be more than happy to change it.
>
> Please give me feedback on this! Also, we have changed words like
> 'theorize' to 'theorise' due to more common usage and the fact that the 's'
> is the original. Any objections?
>
> I'd love to hear your feedback on this area, bye! :)
> anarchist tomato
> P.S. I live in Australia, not England.
>
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