[Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The most common different orthographies are those for the American and
British spelling.. When it comes to differences between British and American
English, the standard version of either can be well understood in either
country. Australian English or Jamaican English are less easily understood.
I do not know to what extend Indian English is homogeneous..

As long as people write in either the UK or US orthography, the words are
easily enough understood. The problems comes with implied expected
knowledge. This is where things break down.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 19 September 2010 14:08, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 September 2010 12:42, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is normal because any standard language has different registers, the
> > dialect has limited registers and in general only for daily and familiar
> > use.
>
>
> This, by the way, is why we don't have multiple English Wikipedias -
> in the higher registers, all the dialects (which are frequently all
> but mutually incomprehensible in the lower registers) converge and
> educational English is quite consistent. The only major dialectic
> variant is American versus British spelling, and anyone who reads one
> can read and often write in the other.
>
>
> - d.
>
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