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haha i had to laugh at the language selectors: {flag:uk} English (traditional) {flag:us} English (simplified)
by croisillon 2y ago
haha i had to laugh at the language selectors:
{flag:uk} English (traditional)
{flag:us} English (simplified)
- Y_Y 2y agoAn old joke, but a good one. Shoutouts to Noah Webster for "opinionatedly curating" British English from an inconsistent crufty unspellable mess to a randomly tweaked version of the same thing.
- jeffhuys 2y agoHow to quickly lose a few potential users.
- roblabla 2y agoOther people might say it's a great way to self-moderate its network.
- gooseus 2y agolol, or how to easily filter out a few users who can't take a joke.
- diggan 2y agoWith emphasis on few. I'd wager less than 0.01% of potential users would be butthurt enough by that joke to avoid the platform as a whole. And the ones who got butthurt, probably better off not having them on the platform in the first place.
- another-dave 2y agoIt seems strange that someone would be offended by the US variant being called "simplified" spelling — wasn't that the whole point?
- freeopinion 2y agoMaybe they meant people who don't want to be considered traditional...
- acomjean 2y agoI’m an American and not offended in the least. It is simplified (color vs the obviously incorrect UK variant colour). Gray va grey. y’all is a great addition to the Simplified English. Despite being told long ago by a drunk English visiting student that “the language is English not American” I’ll stand by our American simplification! Lamentably this simplification seems to be backtracking our political system…but hey we’re going from Discord to Revolt!
- ChocolateGod 2y ago> It is simplified Still waiting for American Football to be renamed to Handegg.
- aredox 2y agoCan't handle "locker-room banter"? You won't be missed.
- csomar 2y agoIt's open source.
- unit149 2y ago[dead]
- shaky-carrousel 2y agoIt's not a loss.
- piva00 2y agoFragile egos that can't take such a innocuous joke are not really a loss in the overall scheme of things though.
- fatata123 2y agoOnes that are offended by a lighthearted joke. Sounds like a plus
- anonzzzies 2y agoHow to quickly show you have no sense of humor.
- roenxi 2y agoI also spot "That’s the website, you can’t scroll further." in large, helpful letters. These people seem to have a pretty solid sense of humour. Mild enough it is difficult to take offence to, playful enough to add character. Hope they do well; I dislike closed source chat programs.
- jorvi 2y agoRather than open or closed source programs, let's have interoperability. Then everyone can choose. I believe Facebook was aiming for something like that with Threads, and was playing to have WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger be open to a specific standard as well? I fondly remember the days of Pidgin and Adium..
- pjerem 2y ago> I fondly remember the days of Pidgin and Adium.. You may like https://www.beeper.com/ https://www.beeper.com/ And if you are nerd/privacy conscious enough, though their app and cloud service is proprietary, it’s based on Matrix and open source bridges which you can have a full list here : https://github.com/beeper https://github.com/beeper
- Qdulf 2y agoThe push for messenger interoperability is a reaction to the EUs Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires certain gatekeeper services to allow interoperability with smaller platforms. Threads is working on implementing ActivityPub for interoperability with other platforms that already use it. ActivityPub is an open standard for implementing the Fediverse, a group of federated social platforms heavily based in the open source community.
- agumonkey 2y agothey might have to update their translation to (limited) soon based on how the current admin is blitzkriegeering
- theandrewbailey 2y agoSince US English retains more historical features of English and has fewer of the newer ones (especially in light of Received Pronunciation, rhoticity, and random u insertion), one could argue that US English is the more traditional one. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
- dietr1ch 2y agoYou know it's way more traditional because they democratically pushed themselves into an oligarchy ;)
- lenerdenator 2y agoSounds pretty European to me, honestly.
- HeckFeck 2y agoI live in a region of the UK where rhoticity is alive and well. It actually means I've an easier time understanding some words when Americans speak them, compared to the English. On the broader point I'd agree up until I notice that you'd write 'defense' yet also 'fence', and ponder why the verb 'got' is so overused.
- dijit 2y agoIsn't that a myth? Wonder where that idea even came from, the BBC article even says as such "“It is a delightful and attractive myth that Shakespeare’s language got fossilised” in parts of the US, [the dialect anthropologist] says." I mean; we have old runic languages that match northern English pronunciation really well- along with "olde english" spelling which is clearly a rote writing of a southern English accent (likely from somewhere like Gloucestershire). An attractive myth, perhaps, but I'm not sure how much truth there really is. https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/bofu3g/how_did_america_lose_the_british_accent/engwddv/ https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/bofu3g/how_did_ame...
- mpalmer 2y agou wot mate
- Cthulhu_ 2y agou havin a laff?
- ChocolateGod 2y agoight m8 shank u bruv
- NetOpWibby 2y agoyou taking the piss innit?
- arzig 2y agoYep, simplified by removing all those silly extraneous ‘u’s
- t-3 2y agoOther way around. The British wanted to differentiate themselves from colonial hillbillies so they tried to assume the appearance of culture by making the words look more French.
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