Re: UK friendly?

["diotima" <diotima -at- myway -dot- com>]

what bugs you about american documentationize is that it's not british documentationize.



-diotima





thomas wrote:





>Things that bug me about American documentation are:



-ize instead of ise.



thru instead of through, in fact I'd love it if you never use 'thru' when

describing dates such as; "Sept. 1 thru Sept. 15" and would much more

prefer it if it was stated along the lines of 'From 1st Sept. to 15th

Sept. inclusive"



Dates, this is difficult AND is dependant on the audience exposure to

computers (after all, using MS products for a while the user becomes aware

of checking the date format) but in general the UK uses DD/MM/YY(YY) or

DD-Month (short) name-YYYY. There is an ISO standard date format of (I

think) YYYY-MM-DD.



And Finally, The tendency to turn ever noun into a verb by adding 'ize' or

even 'ise'.



I'll duck from the 'friendly fire' now.









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