 British Vs. American, I always get caught out |
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 Apr 27 2008, 01:08 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ]  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 47 Joined: 4-February 08 Member No.: 28,119  |
QUOTE(mastercomputers @ Apr 5 2006, 11:42 PM)  The only way I could see this being fixed if both en-US and en-GB were both accepted to use and that the user agents, compilers and anything else that relies on these different spellings but same meanings could understand those differences... I do not think it is a good idea to adopt both spellings (american and british) for so-named key words, reserved in programming languages and used by compilers - it will take additional time and resources for compilation as well as to create an additional headache for compiler producers! (I do not see such key words in C++ and Java, but I belive they can be found in other languages) However this improving can be done easy for names of constants and methods. If you want to prevent any spelling mistakes for developers (who will work with your application or package), you can create such doubled constants and methods in you source code. Really good practise! May be, it will be a starting point for improving all well-known application like IE browser etc. 
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Apr 28 2008, 09:59 PM
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the Q Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 980 Joined: 13-July 05 From: Lithuania, Vilnius Member No.: 7,059 |
QUOTE(mastercomputers @ Apr 6 2006, 03:07 PM) I think depending on where you are, you're taught that way (e.g. if you're in NZ and learning English you would be taught en-GB) but say you're in China and are learning English, which one do they teach you or do they teach both? If they teach both, then there should be no problem for someone to understand color: gray; and colour: grey; American's still have greyhound, which does not make sense because it would be grayhound to them. Though being a name, I guess it has to be that way. I guess usually in other countries, which has nothing to do with English are taught en-GB, but for example when I learnt English, I think it depends on the teacher, we were taught English British, but there were always comments about that in American it's different on some words, that includes gray, grey, color, colour and other words, so you usually just need to remember that and there's nothing you can do about it.  |
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