spelling [ was Re: Are there any non-technical jobs... ]

[sparkes]

Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:30:52PM -0400, Kevin Mulligan wrote:
> 
>>BTW, should words be spelled 'Americanized' or 'European'? For
>>example I came across "customisation" and changed it to
>>"customization".
> 
> 
> I think that Canonical will do official information and releases using
> British spelling, word choice and grammar but we can't force folks to
> know or use this -- and shouldn't.

I use British English for my docs but with so many American and 
Commonwealth English speakers it would be crass for me to fix spelling 
and grammer in other people docs ;-)

> 
> Documents are going to have one, the other, or even mixed
> English. That said, I think it's not really nice to go around changing
> other people's spelling when it's correct in an English. :)

I speak and write British English but when I am editing wiki docs I 
leave the spellings as they are I just make sure they are consistant.

Larger Docs may need consistancy across chapters but that's a thing the 
doc team are actively working on/thinking about.

> 
> When I write traffic, I routinely fix spelling mistakes but don't go
> around changing British spelling in text I paste in and that are
> credited to other people. The text I write I spell in US English
> because it's what I know.

That's as it should be ;-) Write in what you know and quote people in 
there own language.

Thanks for another ubuntu traffic BTW.
> 
> Regards,
> Mako
> 

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