Re: International English

[Héctor A <ne...@gmail.com>]

Is this a discussion just for members of the Apache Flex team? if not, I
just wanted to give my opinion as a foreign Flex user... sincerely, I don't
care about UK English, US English or neutral English, excluding for slangs
and/or cultural references, they all feels mostly the same for me, I'm used
to both, and the differences in technical words are often minimal
(color/colour, behavior/behaviour, etc), and it's not like inside Flex I'm
going to see things like lift/elevator, metro/subway, etc often.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > If we get complaints, we should try to find neutral words, but keep in
> > mind that the Apache LICENSE itself contains words with “ize” like
> > “authorize”.  I don’t see how you’ll be able to remove all US English
> from
> > our release packages.
> >
> > I would need to see a clear picture on how changing spellings based on
> > user demographics is going to help the community.  If we were adopt such
> a
> > policy, we might just finish migrating to Int’l English when we find Flex
> > has suddenly become more popular in the US and have to migrate back.
> What
> > if it is a tie?  Or so close it changes week to week?  What if Flex
> > becomes most popular in China?
>
> See [1]. None of the above "issues" have anything to do with my original
> suggestion.
>
> Any commit is a revert away and documents the changes. Small reversible
> changes is all we're talking about here.
>
> Justin
>
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Re: International English

[Chris Martin <wi...@gmail.com>]

I agree with Alex, I think we should address confusion when confusion
arises. Also I don't feel we want to foster a feeling of apprehension in
the community when writing out an English sentence.  We are all fairly
global now, so I feel that I (being from the US) can read and understand UK
English just fine and vice versa.

Chris

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Kessler CTR Mark J <
mark.kessler.ctr@usmc.mil> wrote:

> > Is this a discussion just for members of the Apache Flex team?
>
> I say a discussion open to the community.  Having it in the public is part
> of the transparency.
>
> -Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Héctor A [mailto:neverbirth@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 6:07 AM
> To: dev@flex.apache.org
> Subject: Re: International English
>
> Is this a discussion just for members of the Apache Flex team? if not, I
> just wanted to give my opinion as a foreign Flex user... sincerely, I don't
> care about UK English, US English or neutral English, excluding for slangs
> and/or cultural references, they all feels mostly the same for me, I'm used
> to both, and the differences in technical words are often minimal
> (color/colour, behavior/behaviour, etc), and it's not like inside Flex I'm
> going to see things like lift/elevator, metro/subway, etc often.
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > If we get complaints, we should try to find neutral words, but keep in
> > > mind that the Apache LICENSE itself contains words with “ize” like
> > > “authorize”.  I don’t see how you’ll be able to remove all US English
> > from
> > > our release packages.
> > >
> > > I would need to see a clear picture on how changing spellings based on
> > > user demographics is going to help the community.  If we were adopt
> such
> > a
> > > policy, we might just finish migrating to Int’l English when we find
> Flex
> > > has suddenly become more popular in the US and have to migrate back.
> > What
> > > if it is a tie?  Or so close it changes week to week?  What if Flex
> > > becomes most popular in China?
> >
> > See [1]. None of the above "issues" have anything to do with my original
> > suggestion.
> >
> > Any commit is a revert away and documents the changes. Small reversible
> > changes is all we're talking about here.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
>

RE: International English

[Kessler CTR Mark J <ma...@usmc.mil>]

> Is this a discussion just for members of the Apache Flex team?

I say a discussion open to the community.  Having it in the public is part of the transparency.

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Héctor A [mailto:neverbirth@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 6:07 AM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: International English

Is this a discussion just for members of the Apache Flex team? if not, I
just wanted to give my opinion as a foreign Flex user... sincerely, I don't
care about UK English, US English or neutral English, excluding for slangs
and/or cultural references, they all feels mostly the same for me, I'm used
to both, and the differences in technical words are often minimal
(color/colour, behavior/behaviour, etc), and it's not like inside Flex I'm
going to see things like lift/elevator, metro/subway, etc often.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > If we get complaints, we should try to find neutral words, but keep in
> > mind that the Apache LICENSE itself contains words with “ize” like
> > “authorize”.  I don’t see how you’ll be able to remove all US English
> from
> > our release packages.
> >
> > I would need to see a clear picture on how changing spellings based on
> > user demographics is going to help the community.  If we were adopt such
> a
> > policy, we might just finish migrating to Int’l English when we find Flex
> > has suddenly become more popular in the US and have to migrate back.
> What
> > if it is a tie?  Or so close it changes week to week?  What if Flex
> > becomes most popular in China?
>
> See [1]. None of the above "issues" have anything to do with my original
> suggestion.
>
> Any commit is a revert away and documents the changes. Small reversible
> changes is all we're talking about here.
>
> Justin
>
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Re: International English

[Harbs <ha...@gmail.com>]

Discussions are for everyone. Don’t hesitate to comment on anything.

Harbs