Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
by girvo on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:23PM
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That's the most ridiculous thing I've come across in a while. It absolutely doesn't make for a poor reader experience, and that's some US Defaultism if I've ever heard it. And I'm neither British nor American! US writing is basically never localised to Australian English, why in the world must the converse be true?
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
by dylan604 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:08PM
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If this is what the level of education has become in the US, well, I guess it kind of explains a lot
Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
by adhesive_wombat on Thursday June 08, 2023 @03:54AM
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Doesn't quite have the same ring to it:
> Righto, mate, gimme a shout as Ishmael. Few donkey's years ago—don't get your knickers in a twist 'bout when exactly—findin' me wallet as dry as a dead dingo's donger, and not a bloody thing worth a squiz on the land, reckon I'd chuck a U-ey on life, put a bit of water under me bridge. Wanted a stickybeak at the wet half of this great wide world, didn't I?
(With ChatGPT assist!)