Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Donate site and English (US)

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> Le 09/04/13 01:24 PM, Dave Johnson a écrit :
>
> > In terms of spelling... North American English or British English, which
> > version are you preferring? If you don't like the reference to the US for
> > the sake of opinion... Lets stick with North American English then.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
>
> We have no nl EN groups and use international-EN as our base by convention,

I've never heard of "International-EN", but I'll go read up on it now :-)

> It would be as if we had put FR-CA, and ES-CO as language designation which
> we do not do.

Just as a point of clarification, I believe that en-US is a very
common default in many FOSS distros or software packages, so I think
that in this case there might be some justification based on
consistency. Personally, 'International-EN' sounds like a fine choice.

> Therefore by simple logic EN should also follow the same
> format as the rest of the language choices.

That seems reasonable to me. If we do have just one version of the
text for all English-speaking visitors, we should put an emphasis on
clarity and try to avoid idiomatic phrases or country-specific
vocabulary that could be confusing to a chunk of our native English
speakers.

--R

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