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@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
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