[plug] KDE en_GB i18n question!

[John Knight]

I don't think that you lot understand why I post here, we're not after the 
opinions of people that have gone to uni for 8 years to say that they can 
speak English. I ask here because you're a bunch of people that speak 
English and use Linux. One of the first things that we agreed on when we 
started the project was to not get overly nitpicky with things, which is why 
we'll reject some ideas if you lot don't like it. Ever noticed that 
everytime I ask a question, it's something like "what do you lot reckon of 
this word?", not "we're gonna spell this word in this particular way and 
there's nothing that you lot can do about it".

You lot are the average user base, you're the "they" of the Linux community, 
why not utilise your position if we ask for your help? I am rather cheesed 
off at, "some of us are doing more important things, lik eusing Linux" 
though, as it goes against the fundamentals of the GNU ideal. GNU's made up 
of thousands of portions of things, with different people doing different 
things, who's to say that our work is less important than the bloke that 
sets up the scripting for this, that and the other? We're just trying to do 
our job, but unfortunately it's an area that people view as insignificant, 
which is quite short sighted if we want to estblish our desktops in the 
mainstream.

Let us do our jobs, please use our work because we've done a lot of it (you 
won't have to use a UK keyboard, believe me) and if you don't like our 
messages, don't sodding read them (surely we can post these if people can do 
OTs all of the time)!

KDE Bloke

>John - might I suggest you try the alt.english.usage newsgroup?
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.english.usage
>
>You're likely to get much higher quality (and quantity) of responses there
>(for this particular topic) than on plug. Not that I'm meaning to malign
>anyone's responses here :), just that the people frequenting that newsgroup
>tend to be rather more... um... obsessive about appropriate and correct
>English usage.
>
>Whereas the denizens of this mailing list tend to be obsessed about
>sensible things, like Linux. Correct use of English is usually be waaaay
>down the list of stuff to worry about.... (as can be seen from most posts
>to this list on any random day :-)
>
> > KDE Bloke
>
>Pete.
>--
>http://akira.apana.org.au/~pete/
>... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
>lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
>their C programs.  -- Robert Firth
>




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