My 2 [[eurocent]]s:
The possibilities for diverse British/American spelling being so
widespread, the adoption of "both options"-markup would absolutely
_guarantee_ that every single article's markup would become so
convoluted that it will more successfully prevent new contributors from
joining the Wikipedia than all other "less than optimal" proposals
combined.
The differences between British/US English DO NOT impair understanding
of the article text for most people.
Extra markup to "cater for" these differences DECIDEDLY WOULD impair
understanding of the markup text for most people.
IMHO the motion to introduce the proposed markup epitomizes the victory
of grammarian stormtrooping over the KISS principle.
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
www.ropersonline.com
On 30 Sep 2004, at 20:53, modean52(a)comcast.net wrote:
True. In American English, a list of 3 items is
usually "bacon, eggs,
and cheese" - not "bacon, eggs and cheese." The later implies a
connection between the items, but the former doesn't.
James
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e2m wrote:
Why this resource is not used to deal with the
differences of the
type
"behaviour" and "behavior" or "center" and
"centre"?
One reason is that the differences between American and British
English are more involved than simply changing the spelling of a few
words. Punctuation and grammar are also involved. If you changed
behavior to behaviour in an otherwise AE sentence, the sentence would
then be wrong in both languages. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
Angela.
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