On 9/3/07, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Well, Marc made a statement about fruit in general, so I wasn't really being flippant, not too much anyway. :-)
But, when it comes to a pome versus a berry, I'm going to hold you to a higher standard than Marc--until Marc indicates other wise.
WP is very open, and openness is pretty well ingrained in the culture; you're going to have a hard time finding a more open project out there.
Stan
And when openness is ingrained in part of a culture, it makes it hard to justify it in other parts, or maybe necessary to justify it, which is why people get irritated on list and on en.wiki about lacks of transparency.
KP
PS Let's not go overboard on criticizing spellings in English, please. I do research in 19th century Brittish journals and often throw in weird vowels when I get back to writing Standard American English--if you haven't had to switch between dialects on purpose it's hard to appreciate how difficult it is in English. I vote for Polish becoming the world language--at least we could all spell, and they have great poets.