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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? |
Date: | Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:00:01 +0200 |
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Sam Steingold wrote:
Believe it or not, good grammar is absolutely crucial to understanding even a simple sentence (you need to study a foreign language as an adult to truly appreciate this observation - however trivial it might seem to a linguist), and consistent spelling would help a beginner a lot.
At least for me I think grammar is much more important than those small differences we are speaking about here. Of course for searching the spelling plays a bigger role.
Did I tell about this list of the 1721 words we are talking about: http://www.tysto.com/articles05/q1/20050324uk-us.shtml
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