On 19/09/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Does your e-mail have a point?
I would guess this is the same person who ranted at the en: Help Desk yesterday about the issue.
As this rant included (edited highlights) -
"It's bad enough that the British invention of HTML won't let you type colour correctly in tags, without having the world's largest free online dictionary purporting to display information in English, but in fact displaying it in a dialect of English - we've got Wikipedia in Scots, Wikipedia in Middle English, but when you click on Wikipedia English, you get spelling errors, sloppy grammar and garbled syntax; in short the American dialect of English, trying to hijack the term English. ... I want Wikipedia "English" to be partitioned in to "English" and "American". We can copy and paste and run spellcheck to iron out the mangled American illiteracy, no worries. ... It is a scandal to actively promote the butchering of English..."
- I think we can safely consider this as not providing a great deal of useful insight into our language policy :-)