Gerard Meijssen wrote:
You are wrong. To me English is English I am colo(ur)
blind to what
makes English English or American.
OK...
You forget that there other types of
English as well and
This is patently false. If you actually read my proposal, you would see
that both the proposal and the examples given account for more varieties
than just en-us and en-gb. The reason I focus on en-us and en-gb is
because that is where the greatest differences are. Most of the other
written dialects of English are substantially the same as either en-us
or en-gb, with minor variation in usage.
as I mentioned earlier when I am expected to do the
work YOU want people to do, you can count me, and with me many
non-native (whatever English) speakers out, to contribute to
EN:wiktionary. I have posted these reasons before.
I don't think there was anything about my proposal that indicated that
editors will be expected to know all the regional differences and be
required to put variant words in curly brackets. The beauty of the wiki
system, you see, is that when someone comes along who DOES know the word
is a regionalism, they can add the brackets, thus increasing the
article's accessibility.
Besides, there are plenty of people who get bothered when they read
things written in a foreign dialect. Why not allow them to read
Wikipedia the way the want to?
- David