Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval

Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by r00fus on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:17PM (#41790280)

You do realize that what people actually speak (in France) differs quite a bit from the Académie Française. email vs. courriel for example is a good one, but you'll stand out in most places if you don't know l'argot (slang).

I don't think an English standardization would change much in how people actually speak.

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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by ktosobcy on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:32PM (#41800559)

Well, loanwords is slightly different that completely inconsistent spelling - wouldn't you say?

Imagine some would stick with original "bonjour" (Qubec), other more progressive would simplify to "bojur" and whatnote.

You have the same with "colour" and "color". Or "night" and "nite". From my observatio where you have some language authority there is at least consisten spelling (and english spelling is all over the place)

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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by r00fus on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:52PM (#41803468)

And that's why we have language locale codes:

en_US vs. en_GB

fr_CA vs fr_FR

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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by ktosobcy on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:31AM (#41808184)

Yes, but imagine not having to deal with those ;)

Besides, in case of Spanish the spelling is more uniform. Aforementioned locales are mostly for GUIs and regional wording differences. And the thread started with "unifying english spelling" which is just a mess…

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