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Kind of funny the animus the author has against US spellings. It's nothing but shade to refer to US spellings as 'simplified' and UK spellings as 'traditional',
by kennysoona 2y ago
Kind of funny the animus the author has against US spellings. It's nothing but shade to refer to US spellings as 'simplified' and UK spellings as 'traditional', regardless of the merit of the argument for doing so.
I can't imagine anyone will really need to use this, but it seems to have let the author work out some issues.
- _nivlac_ 2y agoI think it's a play on the Chinese language having Traditional/ Simplified versions. I'm choosing to take this repo as tongue-in-cheek, which is hard to really determine online...
- kennysoona 2y agoI want to see it as tongue-in-cheek as well, but, I feel like that's a stretch...what would be the humor in that? But even if it doesn't make sense to me, I prefer your interpretation of motive.
- ccppurcell 2y agoLook as a Brit let me reassure that it is a joke. No one thinks American English is simpler than British English.
- _blk 2y agoArr, only pirrates have trru spellingg LC_ALL=en_PR
- kennysoona 2y agoI guess ninjas also since they use pirate spelling as well.
- pwdisswordfishz 2y agoPuerto Rican English? Does it differ that much from mainland US variety?
- jasonjei 2y agoThe funny thing about references to Traditional Chinese (HK and Taiwan) and Simplified Chinese is that there’s even more shade in Chinese… 簡體字（简体字）Simplified characters 繁體字（繁体字）Complicated characters
- aragilar 2y agoSpoken like someone who hasn't had their code fail because they spelt words correctly ;)
- kennysoona 2y agoThis comment is perfect for being equal amounts 'lol' and 'grrr'.
- gizajob 2y agoI second that animus. An example I had to endure in Britain recently was bus adverts for an Apple movie starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney called “WOLFS”. At first I thought I must not be seeing an apostrophe… but then… the horror. For speakers of English (simplified) who can’t understand, the plural of wolf is wolves.
- dahdum 2y agoIt’s the same in both, it was deliberate. Wikipedia lists a potential reason. > The title “Wolfs”, a grammatically incorrect plural of Wolf, is an apparent reference to the character of Winston Wolfe (aka “Mr Wolf”) - an iconic “fixer” in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfs_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfs_(film)
- gizajob 2y agoI don’t buy it.
- satiric 2y agoWell do you talk about Nissan Leafs, or Nissan Leaves? I'd probably use the former
- gizajob 2y agoI can’t say I often have cause to talk about multiple Nissans. Plus the car is called a Leaf. Regardless of who is correct or not, the bus advert to me as a British person reads and scans as a spelling mistake or grammar error. Googling to find they’re allegedly talking about Winston Wolfe doesn’t remedy that problem. Plus that would be Wolfes.
- dahdum 2y agoIt reads as a mistake to me as an American too, and I expect most of us. It’s an artistic choice.