Re: Style guide feedback

[Trevor Curtis <tcurtis somaradio ca>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:52:02PM -0800, Malcolm Tredinnick offered:
> > So in laymen's terms, how should we look at these menu
> > bar/menu-bar/menubar, color/colour debates?
> 
> No! Please, let's just decide that there's no unique correct answer and
> get on with writing the documentation. We've had these discussions
> numerous times before. What makes people think that this time we will
> all suddenly start agreeing? (Sorry; I find this really frustrating and
> futile.)

(I recall only one such thread, but in that respect I guess I'm new so my
appologies.)

Well, this just shows that debating about how futile this debate is, is
a futile debate :). Some hold your opinion, and others really prefer that
it *all* should be uniform. That is why I bring it up.

> 
> > I'm starting to think that it would be best to write up all our docs in
> > Latin and then provide an online Latin->English dictionary. 
> 
> Which is why I think these debates are often so pointless ... English
> evolved, it was not designed and it is not even internally consistent
> amongst even educated speakers within the same country. So we need to
> just make a decision and be consistent within our own documents, as
> others have said.

But I thought you just said there isn't a correct answer?

I think adopting the US english sounds cool. I guess I missed that part
in the style guide.

peace,
TC.