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

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

Scott Stone <SStone@example.com> in his non-U fashion laboured:

>> no, the spellings aren't anti-american per se, but most of the people that i
>> know that insist on using the extraneous "U" and such, ARE anti-american.

Well, most people I know use "u" spellings, and very few of them are 
anti-American.

When it comes to "insisting" on particular spellings, the most insistent
people I have encountered are Americans. I know from long experience
that when I write an article or paper for an American journal or
magazine, either the editors will delete the `u's, change the centres to
centers, etc. or they will return the draft with instructions on how it
*must* be spelt. Even proper nouns have to be changed.

We usually, as a matter of courtesy, print material by Americans as they
wrote it, but that process is rarely reciprocated.

Jim
-- 
Jim Breen  [jwb@example.com  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/]
Visiting Professor, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of 
Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
+81 3 5974 3880         [$B%8%`!&%V%j!<%s(B@$BEl5~30Bg(B]