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
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