Summary of Fortnightly Meeting - June 27th 2006

[James Purser]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 20:50 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Nice work, although I'm not sure if splintering the English community into 
> different dialects is a good idea. Wouldn't it be better to work on a single 
> en_GB translation? One comprehensive translation is preferable to a dozen 
> half-complete ones, IMHO, most English variants are essentially identical or 
> very similar to en_GB, and en_AU is not an exception.
> 
> BTW, if memory serves me correctly, I am responsible for renaming "Trash" 
> to "Garbage Bin". "Rubbish Bin" would be an acceptable alternative.
> 

I'm going to go with Sridhar on this one. Australian English, despite
its many differences in terms of slang usage, is still too close to UK
English to be considered a different dialect.

America has had a couple of hundred years more to branch away from the
trunk line that Australia has.
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