On 16/04/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
'Accepted by the community' is a hard one - partly because any preference based on common use runs into a strong nationalist and anti-US sentiment among certain users, despite common English usage being generally preferable according to our naming conventions.
IMHO, pulling out "anti-US sentiment" is a bit of a cop-out. There are lots of reasons why non-American people may object to the way American people do things that have nothing to do with prejudices against them as individuals.
But anyway.
Steve