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El Jue 16 Oct 2003 11:55, Bruce Byfield escribió:
> Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> > I suspect that people like myself, an expatriate American, may be more
> > aware of international differences within our common language, and
> > less concerned about those differences, than people who haven't been
> > forced to adjust to that difference.
>
> I think that non-Americans are also more likely to be aware of the
> differences, simply because American English is dominant while their
> type of English isn't. Geof Hart and I, for example, are both Canadians.
> Living on the edge of the United States, Canadians are constantly seeing
> spellings and usages that aren't theirs.
I'll go along with that, both based on my own experience and from listening to
students of English with whom I spend I lot of time, as they wrestle with
spellings, pronounciations and other vagaries.
><snip>
>
> As an aside, have you looked at the varieties of English offered in
> OpenOffice.org dictionaries? (The hidden segue here is that Jean and I
> both post to the OpenOffice mailing lists). The project currently has
> dictionaries for English as spoken in Belize, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica,
> New Zealand, Phillipines, South Africa, Trinidad, UK, USA, and Zimbabwe.
> A number of other English dictionaries are also in the process of being
> developed. Of course, these dictionaries are partly an indication of
> contributor's enthusiasms, OOo being an open source project, but I
> wouldn't have thought that there was a need for quite so many variants.
> But, at least in some people's minds, there obviously are.
I'm gunna start knockin' up the Aussie version.... :-)
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