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> but avoid Americanizing the text So you UKize it instead? Not sure one is better than the other, and would argue US English is more widespread.
by PrimeMcFly 3y ago
> but avoid Americanizing the text
So you UKize it instead? Not sure one is better than the other, and would argue US English is more widespread.
- irrational 3y agoIs Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English closer to UK or America? I assume Canada is closer to the US while those down south are closer to the UK.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoIt's weird because the commonwealth countries all still insist on UK spelling, but have become much more American in their slang and actual speech.
- mynegation 3y agoCanadian vocabulary is pretty much the same as American, we say “gas”, not “petrol”, and use “I guess” instead of “I suppose”, but there are still some spelling holdouts, like “centre”, “theatre”, “colour” etc. But spelling of the “tire”, for example, is American, not British.
- bentley 3y agoI leave it unchanged. The result is stylistic variation across sections of the codebase based on the nationality of the writer, but that’s fine—my focus is on fixing unclear or outright incorrect writing, not necessarily forcing every tense or mood to be consistent with my own regional dialect.