Summary of Fortnightly Meeting - June 27th 2006

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 21:29, James Purser <purserj at k-sit.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes. I strongly believe that one of the main reasons for the encroachment of 
en_US onto the rest of the world is that there is no effective 
counter-balance. How can there be, when there are so many regional variants? 
I see little reason for them when they are so similar. As James has pointed 
out, their main differences are in their slang. This has no bearing on a 
project like Ubuntu, which should not be using slang in its translations at 
all.

As the old axiom goes, 'united we stand, divided we fall'.

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