Re: WOT: "Correct" English
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003, Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> This is the thing that has confused me for a while. There are
> language translations and then the regional dialects - take Portuguese
> for example, there is Portuguese (pt) and Brazilian Portuguese
> (pt_BR), but why are we English speakers subjected to a dialect en_US
> as the default rather than en being PROPER English. (I should point
> out that even though I've got a .uk email I'm in fact an Australian).
Oh, man, I'm screwed. I speak both American English and Brazilian
Portuguese! But like American English often being the default in
software, so is Brazilian Portuguese over Luso Portuguese.
-Ken