Jack & Naree wrote:
Yes, it was me, I did rant, I do apologise, but
I'm just pissed off with
proper English being treated like this.
You have Wikipedia in Klingon, in tiny tribal languages, and now in Scots
(and I'm Scottish btw) - which is basically as similar to correct English as
American-English is - at least I think most native English-speakers can
probably read it.
Actually, we don't have a Wikipedia in Klingon. It's a Wikicity, which
is hosted by Wikia, *not* the Wikimedia Foundation.
BTW, have you considered contributing to sco.wikipedia?
"- I think we can safely consider this as not
providing a great deal of
useful insight into our language policy :-)"
Why not? Ok, I ranted, but this not an illegitimate point, why should we
(and I say that because you have a ".uk" address) be forced to accept
Americanisms?
Really? I thought it was
en.wikipedia.org...
If you're British, do think we should start
changing our spellings to
American ones? Start changing our grammar too?
someone at Wikipedia ages ago wrote to me that he thought it was fine for
articles in the English section to remain in the dialect relevent to their
subject matter - he basically said, if it's about the UK it can be in
English, but everything else is to be in American-English, but called
English - and he said he was British!
Actually, the policy is (or at least was):
* If subject of article is British (or other Commonwealth
English)-related, use Commonwealth English.
* If subject of article is USian, use US English
* If neither applies, majority style (in case both are used) of original
author is preferred.
I mean there are several issues here: cultural
imperialism, ambiguation
(because of the many differences in American-English and English usage), and
English learners learning to spell incorrectly and talk like Americans - why
is it wrong to resist that?
You are welcome to create your own fork of the site in Commonwealth
English, provided you comply with the GFDL.
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