On Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:34:36 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:00:14 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc > > > linguas_en - English locale > > > linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia > > > linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada > > > linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain > > > linguas_en_US - English locale > > > > I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in England; > > I speak English. People who live in America speak their own version of > > it, adapted from the original. > > Indeed, en_US is a fork of the original. > > I guess that's why, in the old cowboy films, the native Americans used to > say "white man speak with forked tongue" ;-)
Then there's that old one about the Native American chief who observed that only a white man could think that cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket and sewing it onto the top would give him a longer blanket. -- Regards, Peter.
