Re: [Libreoffice] Request for review & push to libreoffice-3-3

On 29/12/10 17:46, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> English is de facto a thing everyone should know, even more so if
> they are going to read the license. (And I would even
> argue the preamble of the license belongs to the license itself, 
> and thus shouldn't be translated anyways).

Actually, as a native English speaker (that's English, not American :-)
I'm pretty appalled by the fact we expect everyone else to speak our
language, so I wouldn't agree "English is something everyone should
know". Oh - and if we're going by European first languages at least,
then the dominant native tongue is "some variant of latin". Making Latin
the standard language of Europe would make a lot of sense :-) English is
very much an also-ran in those stakes...

> I also have to live with the fact that en_US iś "english", whereas
> that's deserved by en_GB because that's the original english. I don't
> add this as stopper either.
And again, no, en_GB is not the "original english". It is the language
of the English nation, true (who are Saxons, not Angles :-), but
American is actually a lot closer to historical English than is Modern
English.

(btw, the Angles speak Scots :-)

Cheers,
Wol