Since this thread is now long and distributed enough to need tangents, I'll throw in the computing equivalent.
Writing software in Britain for a company which only pretended to be American for tax and regulatory purposes I naturally used British spellings (24 bit colour etc.), even though all the customers were American computer making companies. Some of my colleagues backed down and changed to American spellings for DEC and SGI, but I managed to persuade HP that they should take advantage of the Unix Native Language Support feature to supply the American spellings in a separate file, which users could select if needed. I just got the impression that the Americans inventing support for foreign languages didn't originally have their own in mind as a target market.
Maybe it's time for a War of Independence from American imperialism - let's throw all the Diet Coke into Boston (Lincs) harbour! If it has one.
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Date: 2008-08-31 05:18 pm (UTC)Writing software in Britain for a company which only pretended to be American for tax and regulatory purposes I naturally used British spellings (24 bit colour etc.), even though all the customers were American computer making companies. Some of my colleagues backed down and changed to American spellings for DEC and SGI, but I managed to persuade HP that they should take advantage of the Unix Native Language Support feature to supply the American spellings in a separate file, which users could select if needed. I just got the impression that the Americans inventing support for foreign languages didn't originally have their own in mind as a target market.
Maybe it's time for a War of Independence from American imperialism - let's throw all the Diet Coke into Boston (Lincs) harbour! If it has one.