[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wiktionary-l] English orthographies

[Gerard Meijssen]

Jack & Naree wrote:

>
>     Hoi,
>     I would not consider either variation of English to be more or less
>     important/relevant. What I consider is practical; how does it impact
>     including this content in Ultimate Wiktionary.. Here we have a need to
>     identify a word as either EE or AE or ?E and the question is how
>     to do this.
>
>  
> An American-English dictionary, and a (Commonwealth) English 
> Dictionary then.
> Otherwise, it has to be all listed as seperate entries.
> Frankly I favour the first option, because to non-American-English 
> speakers, the American spellings are simply misspellings.
>  
> How does Dutch, Flemish, and Afrikaans approach this? Do you have a 
> separate Flemish wiktionary etc...?

Dutch and Flemish are considered one language. I would not want a 
seperate spell checker for either Dutch or Flemish. All Flemish words 
are as far as I am concerned as good as any Dutch word. Afrikaans is a 
seperate language and it should be truly be seen as such.

>
>     It is up to the Wiktionary comunity how they want to have this.
>     They can
>     either have it with descriptions in definitions and etymologies
>     spelled
>     in one of the used orthographies or it can be considered not to be too
>     important and it can be either.
>     Thanks,
>        GerardM
>
>