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Re:Apple Helps Asahi Linux by handelaar on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:55PM (#29596650)
As someone who has worked as a sub (copy-editor) in the UK for many years in the past I cannot begin to describe exactly how completely incorrect this is.
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Re:Apple Helps Asahi Linux by tomComb on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:28PM (#29597922)
If you are going to write something like that you really should explain.
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Re:Apple Helps Asahi Linux by nathancahill on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:26PM (#29598540)
Well he said he can't begin to describe...
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Re:Apple Helps Asahi Linux by spacedcowboy on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:33PM (#29597974)
Have to agree - as a Brit, using 'help' there is just ... wrong
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Re:Apple Helps Asahi Linux by toyg on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:10PM (#29599456)
Not really. It's absolutely normal to see, for example, sports clubs and teams used as plural noun in the UK press; hence by extension it cann be used for any org. I know because it's a big gotcha for us Europeans, who tend to use the singular there.
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Re:Apple Helps Asahi Linux by badtoro on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:14PM (#29596964)
British or American version?
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