[Typo3-doc] Greetings from the US

[Elmar Hinz]

JoH wrote:
>>>Thanks for your perspective. That's along the lines of what we were
>>>discussing about how non-native-English-speakers probably won't
>>>notice the difference between US-English and UK-English. Even the
>>>small difference between us calling it British-English and you
>>>calling it UK-English indicates that we think differently over here.
>>>:)
>>>
>>
>>In fact in Europe we call it Oxford-English and raise our nose a
>>little bit. We only call it UK-English for american people because
>>they surley don't know where Oxford is. If we had the time we would
>>prepare the documentations as a Micky-Mouse comic strip for US. Most
>>american people can't read at all. At school they are gun shouting
>>and knife fighting all the day instead of learning. ;-)
> 
> 
> You forgot to mention that they all weigh at least 300 pounds and munch fast
> food the whole day while wasting 25% of the worldwide energy resources for
> cars with V8 engines, air conditions and swimming pools in the californian
> desert.
> 
> Well - I never understood why it makes such a big difference for Brits and
> Americans if the "proper" english is used.
> It's like having a German, Austrian and Swiss list just because there might
> be some grammatical and/or vocabular differences.
> In fact there is just one "German" list and most of the people are happy
> with it regardless of the "german flavour" that is used in their local area.
> 
> I don't think it will raise ones knowledge about handling of colours in the
> GIFBUILDER if you write it "colors" instead.
> But I think it makes sense to translate some documents from "denglish"
> (which might be danish english or deutsches english) to a correct "universal
> english" version.
> 
> Joey
> 


You are certainly right. But I just heared my cuckoo clock. Time again 
for sauerkraut.

Good night

Elmar



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