Summary of Fortnightly Meeting - June 27th 2006

[Pete Brown]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 21:29, James Purser wrote:
> 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.

heh
what about "Recycling Bin"?

> 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.

yeah i agree with that.
but there are a few differences that might be cool to have added or changed.

there is something i noticed about using the en language packs for kde.
well i think they are in the language pack but i don't really know.
the google url's for the search engines in konqueror are all google.co.uk.
it would be cool to have them use google.com.au.

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

from what i have learnt they stuck to a lot of the spellings used from when 
they "emigrated" hence the different spelling of aluminium, though i think 
that's due to split regarding how it should be spelt.

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