At 02:06 pm 5/04/00, George Bonser wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Bill Maidment wrote:
>
> > The massive confusion has arisen from American abuse of English. While
> > we're at it why don't we revert back to true English everywhere. After all
> > Micro$oft has been found guilty of misusing their monopoly. It's about
> time
> > the USA realises it has done exactly the same.
>
>Pretty funny. We are simply following England's time honored tradition of
>bastardizing the language of our ancestors. I wonder what the Angles,
>Saxons, and Jutes would think of your language today (and don't get me
>started on the Normans). Sorry, but backwards compatability is not a
>priority for us Yanks.
>
>:)
>
>Why not just make it like Solaris and have it be dsk ???
What makes you think American is more advanced than English???
And why FORCE everyone to use American? Surely you are advanced enough to
invent compilers, etc. that will accept both forms of spelling. (As long as
we don't get involved with other languages, like French.... Aaaaarrrrgggghhh)
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Bill Maidment
Elgas Ltd
Milsons Point
email: bill.maidment@elgas.com.au
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