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Commonwealth English in codans

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 8:31

Put yourself in this situation: You are a UK hacker writing a program, using, say, curses, where all the constants are written in US English (MAX_COLORS, etc.). Now you want to write a function that returns a random colour. Now consider this paradox: Do you call it randomColour, making the integrity of names suffer? or do you call it randomColor, making it look ugly in your own eyes? Now with ncurses it's not a problem, there are only few variables that you can easily #define and put into void.h. But with OpenGL, there's a crapload of that and I don't know what to do.

(I realise that this is going to turn into a language flamewar anyway, but whatever)

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 17:38

>>9
faggots
From Old French fagot.

complain
From Old French complaindre.

use
From Old French us.

proper
From Old French propre.

bastard
From Old French bastard.

There is no such thing as English that isn't a bastard dialect of French. Anglish (Saxon English) is a good effort, but American is not.

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