American is a dialect of english, and thus it has some differences. It's
preety arogant we we say 'We spell it that way, so it's right'.. The fact
is, either way you understand what I'm trying to say. That's all that
matters.
I actaully was a little supprised that Linus spelled it the way he did, I
thought most of the world ended up learning bastardized American english
so that they can understand our silly slang.
-
Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, llornkcor wrote:
> Excuse me, does it REALLY matter how a word is spelled? It is the MEANING
> that counts. It's that sort of pompous attitude that starts wars and such.
> Just because a country (or person) chooses to spell words differently than
> someone else, does not make the people any more or less educated than any
> other country. Please can we keep topics such as this off this list and
> perhaps on another list. Such as imbetterthanyouare@suckass.com?
>
> >Color is the American spelling. Colour is the correct spelling for the
> >English language as spoken/written in Britain, Australia and the rest of
> >the educated world. As Gregory was pointing out, Linus' English is too
> >good for him to be an American :)
> >
> >David.
k
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html