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> I doubt many English speakers care to distinguish between English dialects It's worthwhile purely for the sake of autocorrect/typo highlighting in text-editi
by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> I doubt many English speakers care to distinguish between English dialects
It's worthwhile purely for the sake of autocorrect/typo highlighting in text-editing software. I don't miss the days of spelling a word correctly in my version of English but still being stuck with the visual noise of red highlighting up and down the document because it doesn't conform to US English.
- BoxOfRain 3y agoYeah I'd rather not have my British English dialect seen as second-class in a world of American English ideally which is what having a red document full of 'errors' implies in those sorts of situations. It's sometimes not a trivial distinction either, for example I've heard of cases where surprised British redditors have found themselves banned from American subreddits for being homophobic when they were actually talking innocently enough about cigarettes!
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoI would think a lot of mods, who are either Highly Online Americans or their weirdo equivalents in other countries, are well aware of the UK usage, but simply expect Brits to give it up in order to avoid offending Americans and the global Reddit community that largely takes American-style sensitivity as its orthodoxy. And considering that Reddit corporate feels that anything that could stir up such outrage is bad for business, mods of popular subreddits may well feel pressured to come down hard on these matters.
- bluGill 3y agoIt doesn't matter if you use UK or US spelling you are wrong. I wish we would adopt the international phonetic alphabet I might have a chance of spelling things correctly.