[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Hyperlink convention

[Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales]

Angela wrote:
> 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

I just wanted to second this, and add one more thing.

Differences between American and British English are too involved for
computers, but _quite easy_ for humans.  Therefore, people should just
relax about it.  It adds a lot of richness to wikipedia, I think.

--Jimbo