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A PostCSS plugin for people who prefer to write English properly
- fastball 6y agoNow I want one that takes Webster's improvements to English further, and substitutes things like "through" with "thru". Not that "through" is in a css property that I know, but I just want English to be phonetic.
- Veen 6y agojuː kɑːnt gɛt ə ˈtruːli fəʊˈnɛtɪk ˈɪŋglɪʃ baɪ ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ ə fjuː ˈspɛlɪŋz. ði ˈælfəbɪt ˈɪznt ʌp tuː ɪt.
- scandox 6y agoThe mistake here is equating English with the set of symbols borrowed from the English language for the purpose of creating a new language. I like British spelling but this is surely a pernicious additional layer of transformation.
- have_faith 6y agoIt's just a joke.
- KitDuncan 6y agoShould be obvious, especially with `padding-ton`
- smitty1e 6y agoI always caution people to be careful with the 'should' and treat it like a loaded weapon.
- Hamuko 6y agoAnd if that's not enough, there's also z-index.
- tobyhinloopen 6y agoI just don’t really care whether we’re using z-index or z-index.
- indentit 6y agoI've never even considered before that some people might pronounce it "zee index" - do they really, or is that also part of the joke?
- mikro2nd 6y agoI think the parent comment was, too...
- kibibu 6y agoI prefer Oxford spelling. Why bother having Z if you can't use it?
- luckgvolina 6y agohaha, i like this
- Epskampie 6y ago> padding-ton padding-top When you're thinking of your favourite bear :-D
- Zealotux 6y ago>padding-ton Count me in.
- mattigames 6y agoOuh disappointing, I was expecting a transpiled CSS alternative that reads as English, eg. When touch screen is bigger than 600px: Paint class important-button: - red background - solid 1 pixel white border
- gpmcadam 6y agoIs this the perpetual meme that will never die? https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
- C1sc0cat 6y agoIronically the APPLE ][ used to have this some keywords where changed between UK and US version - or at least that's what my aging memory tells me
- alienspaces 6y agoYes please!
- bjoli 6y agoOh, but where is the LICENCE file?
- afandian 6y agoToday I learned that American English uses the same spelling for the noun 'licence' and the verb 'license'. If you think it's odd that we distinguish in British English, what about 'advice' and 'advise'. I think Americans still retain the two spellings?
- vinay427 6y ago"Licence" doesn't even look wrong to me as an American. This, along with "grey" and "gray," is one of the few where I don't bother to figure out which one is more common in which country. I'm generally quite pleased by the comments here. None of the usual litterings of "we invented it," "we have more English speakers," etc. that I've seen on some other sites.
- dmix 6y ago> I'm generally quite pleased by the comments here. It helps it was written with humour. Although, not that humour has always stopped people on the internet from taking things super seriously.
- bjoli 6y agoEnglish is not my first language, and in school we were taught British English. However, most English language culture I consumed was American. I have given up speaking anything but franken-english.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoSame here. To this day I wonder why are we teaching people British English? It's not like my country is somehow beholden to the Queen, and the only English anyone here will experience outside school setting is American.
- afandian 6y agoThere is a sweet spot to being the languge underdog. In the UK we've borrowed 'program', 'dialog', 'analog', 'disk' etc for computers, but retain the British for non-computer uses. And, amusingly, we can tell the difference between 'router' and 'router' by pronounciation. It seems software has become far more prescriptive of late. Although had autocorrect in Word 97(?) and smartphones, recently MacOS and Google have been aggressively rewriting text as you type. It's gone from "did you mean the American version?" to "I've changed it, don't worry". And not everyone has the wherewithal to configure their locale properly. I see this as a significant form of cultural erasure over the coming years. Given what we've forced on the world historically, I don't think the UK can complain! But it's interesting to observe.
- globular-toast 6y agoEven if user locales are set properly, I've often wondered whether automatic spelling and grammar checking, and now auto-completion, will retard the future progression of languages. In France they have l'Académie française which essentially seeks to retard the progression of French, but it's never had the power to automatically correct and "suggest" the content of people's emails. > Given what we've forced on the world historically, I don't think the UK can complain! Actually, Britain was different from many other colonial powers in that it kept many local languages, customs and laws in the colonies. France, to give one example, has been much worse than Britain at prescribing French and effectively wiping out many regional languages. Important to note also that English isn't the official language of the United States. It's only the de facto standard. Nigeria made English the official language after independence, but the country still has over 300 languages. English wasn't forced, it just became an invaluable tool allowing the country to operate more efficiently.
- tasogare 6y ago> France, to give one example, has been much worse than Britain at prescribing French True. > and effectively wiping out many regional languages. Have you any example of this affirmation? While I can cite a bunch a regional language destroyed by the French Republic inside current French borders, I have no idea of what you are referring to concerning former colonies. Native Americans in New France never learnt French and the demise of their languages are due to the English settlers, people in Africa learned French (and still do it) yet retained their own languages, same concerning North-Africa where Berber languages have been in concurrenced by Arabic not French, in Indochina French is not spoken anymore. You affirm something really strong without a bunch of example to back it, that seems to be more French-bashing than anything that really happened. The only exception I can find is in French Polynesia. Also, your description of the Académie Française is really biased too.
- SevereOverfl0w 6y agoThere was one of these many years ago as well https://github.com/HashanP/postcss-spiffing https://github.com/HashanP/postcss-spiffing I think spiffing has a few more pieces in it.
- hjek 6y agoI love the !important → !please. I've been corrected many times by Brits for using yankeeisms but is 'opacity' really one of them?
- andybak 6y agoAt the risk of being sent to the tower - I've caved in on -ise/-ize and the former looks wrong to me now. And I'm on the fence about center/centre. Color/Colour however. No, not now, not ever...
- coxmichael 6y agoIn the UK, the -ize spelling is generally attributed to "Americanization", but it’s actually more etymologically correct even for British English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling (It goes back as far as Shakespeare!)
- benjaminjosephw 6y agoThis is really funny but also practically helpful. My muscle memory for words like colour and centre is so strong that I have to pause whenever I write them to make sure I'm using the right spelling in the right context. On a related note, I was on a website owned by a German company the other day that used ReCAPTCHA which asked me to identify all the images that include a "crosswalk". The right answer was clear from context but the assumption that I would know the answer was a little worrying. As a British person I'm glad I occasionally rub up against the colonial attitude of Americans on the internet. It reminds me to think a little more about the cultural assumptions I'm making embedded in what I create.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI had that recaptcha also, I am in Denmark, I missed the first one not because it was unclear but because I have bad vision and didn't have glasses with me and one of the crosswalks was partially obscured so I wasn't sure if there actually was a crosswalk there. I thought there was but couldn't really see it so I said no. Then I had to answer 3-4 other captchas to get through after messing the first one up - the last one was another crosswalk question.
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- swyx 6y agoI could've sworn that there was an effort to insert British equivalents in CSS. what happened to it?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoShouldn't it be called PoshCSS? :).
- smoe 6y agoThis reminded me, when in the beginning of my career in the mid 2000s I spent hours trying to figure out why some css did not seem to get applied in IE6 (Well trying to figure out why x didn't work in IE6 was what people were doing 30%+ of their time in web application development back then) In this case it turned out to be that I was using "grey" for a color which worked perfectly fine in Firefox, but Internet Explorer only knew about the US spelling "gray" so it just ignored my declarations. I haven't used css color names since.
- rstlney 6y agoI always have to wonder about (former?) colonial countries that still want to dictate what "proper" forms of their language are. It's a British English plugin.
- napolux 6y agoMuch like https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
- notadev 6y agoThis could be applied as an anti-forensic countermeasure to something like "speech pattern analysis".