RE: Off-Topic Rant on ./, KDE, et al. (was: Re: CD-ROM drive)

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

well, there are many non-American English types who *are* anti-American
English types :)
and as for Noah Webster, well, ... I don't care.  I just don't like typing
"u" where I don't have to.  dont want to wear out my right index finger
unneccessarily early, you know.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: jwb@example.com [mailto:jwb@example.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 11:38 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: RE: Off-Topic Rant on ./, KDE, et al. (was: Re: CD-ROM drive)


Scott Stone <SStone@example.com> ranted:
>> 
>> good point.  Even if you're one of the anti-American English types, 

Hmmm. No, I'm a non-American English type. That doesn't make me
anti-American, although some Godzonians can't tell the two apart.

>> and like
>> putting extraneous "U"s in words that shouldn't have one (color, armor,
>> etc...), 

Tsk, tsk. The chronology is all wrong. It was the idiosyncratic Noah 
Webster and his early 19th C  spelling book and later dictionary which 
led to the American spelling style. The rest of us just went on spelling 
things the way we always did. Nothing extraneous is added.

A bit like calling someone who has used Unix since 1980 "anti-Microsoft"
who "refuses to use Windows".

[PS; Noah tried to make people write "picnick", "panick", etc. but that was

too much for most Godzonians.]

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