Bazaar-NG traffic #2

[John A Meinel]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:44:30AM -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
>
>>Scott James Remnant wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 03:21 -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>= Decentralized, not Distributed =
>>>>
>>>
>>>ITYM "Decentralised" ;-)
>>>
>>>Scott
>>
>>Not according to Merriam Websters.
>>
>>http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=decentralized&x=0&y=0
>>
>>Do a search on decentralized versus decentralised, and the latter
>>doesn't return anything. (And they do have an entry stating that analyse
>>is the British spelling of analyze.)
>
>
>  $ echo decentralise | aspell list
>  $ exho decentralize | aspell list
>  decentralize

Well, I'm sure these aren't the exact commands, since you mistyped
"echo". I get exactly the opposite here. So I'm sure it is just a locale
dependent thing.

$ echo "decentralize" | aspell list
$ echo "decentralise" | aspell list
decentralise
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

In fact, you can force it with:
$ echo "decentralize" | LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" aspell list
decentralize

I have no idea what flavor of english is planned for bzr, my feeling is
that we should try and be consistent when possible, but whoever writes
the code writes the english. :)

I believe Martin & Robert are Austrailian (though they may just live
there). I'm American, Aaron is Canadian, I assume you are British. So if
Canadians & Austrailians use the "kings english", then we might as well
go with -ise.

John
=:->

PS> To me, it pronounces better with the 'z' since I pronounce the last
syllable that way. When you spell it -ise, do you pronounce it that way
as well?

>  $ locale
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
>  LC_ALL=
>
> aspell's dictionary doesn't quite agree :-)
>
> /M
>

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