Thae's a nice ideal, but if you need to get something working, nothing beats searching for the error message. The original package maintainers could write instructional materials that start from the errors, but I…
I don't want to disagree with your sentiment, but it's for the companies who benefit from Babel to donate, not individual techies.
Canada seems to use a lot of traditional measures. Australians from the country seem to measure in feet and inches - not just peoples heights. And a foreigner might think an Australian asking for a pint of beer is…
I have heard it described that -ed is used more often when the speaker is conceptualising the time it took, but -t is used as a default. That would mean “it burned” brings to mind images more like “it was burning” and…
that will happen regardless, since you will die and your grandchildren are “other people”
tire vs tyre - apparently “tire” is older, but when pneumatic tyres became a thing, the spelling “tyre” caught on in England. So that's not an option. kerb vs curb (n) - again, curb is older, but somehow a spelling…
You have ignored the questioner's question. Why? The fact that something has always been done is not a reason to do it again.
Alternative pov that may help your snobbery: There is not yet an Australian English standard; it is just British. Therefore, Australians are free to create our own standard using parts of the existing standards or…
A spelling reform could keep “mention” and still significantly improve the orthography were it to simply apply the rules more consistently. And when words are genuinely different, like “ask” or “of” it's not going to…
Fortunately it is not a claim in the text you quoted. If a change is necessary, it has already happened everywhere. So neither t-flapping nor th-fronting are necessary, but both are more likely than [t] > [k]. There is…
Australian would have been counterproductive, as there was a time when it could be said Australia uses -ise; Britain prefers -ize and America use -ize. Nowadays I have no idea if there'r any distiction - maybe just…
> So one could say that the '-ize' ending may have a more Germanic feel to it. In a similar way "metre" versus "meter". although one shouldn't, since West Germanic didn't have a z sound or a letter to spell it with - it…
although the Australian visa deemed to match the US work visa for Australians is available without regard for nationality. I think reciprocity is common, but many states work in their own self interest first.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880582
in the olden days, i could walk into a newsagent/video shop, pick up a product, exchange some plesantries, put down some coins, and walk out. no-one would know my name or anything about me. nowadays, if you want to pay…
can you do that on a phone?
i was once told vision impared people can do much faster than that if it's a flat computerised voice. so i started reading articles like that for a while. i had to do a bunch of manual/automatic handling, but i got it…
security updates? i don't need no stinking security updates!
i think monotised videos die easier than non-monotised ones. leave it long enough and they all die.
I was experiencing it. Then I realised f-droid just hadn't updated in a while - no doubt it's that Google battery saver feature where the programs I want my phone to run to achieve some background task get banned. Since…
analogies are great, but there's just literally nothing that corresponds to vitamin c on the internet. the analogy just goes into completely unchartered waters and crashes against the rocks when it pretends that it is a…
they were downvoted. downvoting costs reputation and can lead to a dead post. downvoting means, “don't argue this position again”. fair to say they were cancelled i think.
you can reply below; you just need to click on the post's time to get the post in a new page.
so how does that work? i cannot think of a workable solution short of an end to the world wide web, and the beginning of a system of national internets and data ports (as in, places you send your data to to export them…
the why do i have to “download” my document in libreoffice if i want to keep it?
Thae's a nice ideal, but if you need to get something working, nothing beats searching for the error message. The original package maintainers could write instructional materials that start from the errors, but I…
I don't want to disagree with your sentiment, but it's for the companies who benefit from Babel to donate, not individual techies.
Canada seems to use a lot of traditional measures. Australians from the country seem to measure in feet and inches - not just peoples heights. And a foreigner might think an Australian asking for a pint of beer is…
I have heard it described that -ed is used more often when the speaker is conceptualising the time it took, but -t is used as a default. That would mean “it burned” brings to mind images more like “it was burning” and…
that will happen regardless, since you will die and your grandchildren are “other people”
tire vs tyre - apparently “tire” is older, but when pneumatic tyres became a thing, the spelling “tyre” caught on in England. So that's not an option. kerb vs curb (n) - again, curb is older, but somehow a spelling…
You have ignored the questioner's question. Why? The fact that something has always been done is not a reason to do it again.
Alternative pov that may help your snobbery: There is not yet an Australian English standard; it is just British. Therefore, Australians are free to create our own standard using parts of the existing standards or…
A spelling reform could keep “mention” and still significantly improve the orthography were it to simply apply the rules more consistently. And when words are genuinely different, like “ask” or “of” it's not going to…
Fortunately it is not a claim in the text you quoted. If a change is necessary, it has already happened everywhere. So neither t-flapping nor th-fronting are necessary, but both are more likely than [t] > [k]. There is…
Australian would have been counterproductive, as there was a time when it could be said Australia uses -ise; Britain prefers -ize and America use -ize. Nowadays I have no idea if there'r any distiction - maybe just…
> So one could say that the '-ize' ending may have a more Germanic feel to it. In a similar way "metre" versus "meter". although one shouldn't, since West Germanic didn't have a z sound or a letter to spell it with - it…
although the Australian visa deemed to match the US work visa for Australians is available without regard for nationality. I think reciprocity is common, but many states work in their own self interest first.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880582
in the olden days, i could walk into a newsagent/video shop, pick up a product, exchange some plesantries, put down some coins, and walk out. no-one would know my name or anything about me. nowadays, if you want to pay…
can you do that on a phone?
i was once told vision impared people can do much faster than that if it's a flat computerised voice. so i started reading articles like that for a while. i had to do a bunch of manual/automatic handling, but i got it…
security updates? i don't need no stinking security updates!
i think monotised videos die easier than non-monotised ones. leave it long enough and they all die.
I was experiencing it. Then I realised f-droid just hadn't updated in a while - no doubt it's that Google battery saver feature where the programs I want my phone to run to achieve some background task get banned. Since…
analogies are great, but there's just literally nothing that corresponds to vitamin c on the internet. the analogy just goes into completely unchartered waters and crashes against the rocks when it pretends that it is a…
they were downvoted. downvoting costs reputation and can lead to a dead post. downvoting means, “don't argue this position again”. fair to say they were cancelled i think.
you can reply below; you just need to click on the post's time to get the post in a new page.
so how does that work? i cannot think of a workable solution short of an end to the world wide web, and the beginning of a system of national internets and data ports (as in, places you send your data to to export them…
the why do i have to “download” my document in libreoffice if i want to keep it?