Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Matt Soucy]

On 03/08/2012 02:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Alix Pexton"<alix.DOT.pexton at gmail.DOT.com>  wrote in message
> news:jja8k8$j14$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> I feel compelled to point out that there is no such thing as "British
>> English". There is English, the written language with all its archaic
>> spellings and there are many spoken dialects, the most formal of which is
>> RP (Received Pronunciation) sometimes called The Queen's English (even
>> though she is German).
>>
>
> Yea, that is a good point. OTOH, it's often convenient (and common) to
> assume one particular "de facto standard" dialict unless otherwise stated.
> Here in the US, we have regional dialects too (although perhaps not to the
> same extent as how much the British dialects differ from each other), but
> when people either inside or outside the US refer to "American English",
> typically they're referring to the one that's spoken in the US mid-west and
> on TV/movies. Similarly, in the western world, "Japanese" is, by default,
> considered to be the Tokyo dialect (as opposed to Kansai or whatever other
> ones there may be).
>
> It might be different in Europe, but in the US, we think of "British
> English", unless otherwise specified, as being the London/"Queen's English"
> version. At least, those of us who are aware of the varied British dialects
> ;)
>
> FWIW.
>
I recall my theater director telling me that the closest modern dialect 
to "Shakespearean English" was somewhere near the south side of the 
state of New York...not sure how much truth there is to that, but it's a 
cool idea.
Regional dialects are definitely a thing in the US, but I agree that 
they're not always noticeable...unless you find just the right words for 
someone to say that accent their pronunciation, like the classic "pahk 
the cah in hahvahd yahd" that goes with a Bostonian accent.

>> I tolerate USian spellings
>
> I see I'm not the only one with a pet peeve that "'America' is two
> continents, not one country" :)
>
"American" does have the benefit of being more pronounceable, though...I 
just tried to pronounce that "oohz-ee-an", "us-ee-an", etc and they all 
sound odd.

>> as much as non-English speaking programmers do, because I see it as an
>> accepted "Programmer's English".
>>
>
> Being from the US I couldn't be sure, but that's what I has suspected.
>
>
To be honest, I've occasionally wondered why there aren't any (commonly 
used) programming languages using other human languages as bases. I 
mean, English doesn't exactly have the nicest syntax ever...USian here, 
though.