Request for UK Vista

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Kolin Tregaskes

Can I make a request for the upcoming Vista? Can we please, please, please
have UK spellings for the UK version. Like Favourites and Colour?

Kol
 
Kolin Tregaskes said:
Can I make a request for the upcoming Vista? Can we please, please,
please have UK spellings for the UK version. Like Favourites and Colour?

Kol
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That's not UK English. That's proper English, used by every
English-speaking nation on our planet with the exception of one.
 
Mark D. VandenBeg said:
That's not UK English. That's proper English, used by every
English-speaking nation on our planet with the exception of one.
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Got to admit that its one of my pet peeves also.
Lust like the rest of the world is pretty much metric apart from guess where
!
 
I don't understand what you mean? In the UK we spell it "colour" and
"favourites" so why can't the UK version of Vista do so?

Kol
 
Kolin Tregaskes said:
I don't understand what you mean? In the UK we spell it "colour" and
"favourites" so why can't the UK version of Vista do so?

Kol
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Why not the Canadian Version? Or the South African Version? They also use
the same spellings. That was my point. But to answer the original
question, this may not be available until RTM or even Gold status.
 
Since we kicked the British out a few hundred years ago it is up to us the
USA to say how words are spelled.
 
Mark said:
Why not the Canadian Version? Or the South African Version? They also use
the same spellings. That was my point. But to answer the original
question, this may not be available until RTM or even Gold status.
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Because back in 1783, and again in 1814, the
U.S. of A. won.

So, currently the U.S. of A. is in the driver's
seat.
 
To be sure your request is seen by MS use the Feedback link on your desktop.
 
As an American I say this is crap. The Brits have every right to
localization of spelling. Why not?
 
I have observed this. I am in one of the largest American cities. Often
when I have helped on a chat, someone who is not from the U.S. would say,
"My English is not that good, excuse me" ( or words similar). It has always
been easy for me to shoot back, "Your English is already better than 99% of
the people in my large American city" and be 100% correct because nearly
with a few exceptions nearly everyone who isn't from my country that I run
into has considerably more vocabulary either in English or from their native
country that they rapidly learn to translate into English than the natives
in my city complements of their horrendous educational system, and their
absolute mind-set to read as little as possible. This not only means that
none of them gets through a newspaper or the electronic equivalant on the
web, but that almost all of them considers reading a stop light's colors an
exccessive amount of work.

CH
 
Because back in 1783, and again in 1814, the
U.S. of A. won.

So, currently the U.S. of A. is in the driver's
seat.
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Yeah but wtf has that got to do with English, you can spell your
version how you like but do not call it English it is not.

You speak American English, call it "American English" and I have no
problem. If you want to dictate how English is spelt argue your case
with Oxford University, American English you can do what you like
with I suppose Websters is the US authority?.

American English has added a vast and wonderful lexicon to the English
Language without which English would be much poorer so thanks for
that. But you only dictate spelling if the word originated in the US.

8-)

Jonah
 
Since we kicked the British out a few hundred years ago it is up to us
the
USA to say how words are spelled.
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After taking our language of course, and bastardising it...


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"Our language" means, of course, any English speaker anywhere. Whether its
Cockney or AdSpeak out of Manhatten.
 
Jonah--

I like your posts, but circa August 3, 2006 the USA is not "winning"--it has
ceated a domestic and global Fiasco--and a much more appropriate name is
FIASCOVILLE.

It is hemorrhaging bodies and money and rights as never before. It's
Congress is a total joke.

BTW the guy who heads the Senate Committee that governs IT, computers,
internet law in the US has to have help finding a start button. There are
literal 3 year olds who have far more knowledge of Windows than Ted Stevens.

It is mired in chaos, zero Congressional oversight, financial hemorrhage,
educational crisis, and it is smack dab in the middle east in a civil war it
has helped to structure with a puppet government it controls best described
in these two books:

This will help you undestand what a loser the US is. None of what happened
in 1783 or 1812 is around now. What is around though, are the seeds of what
happened in On June 28, 1914, whenGavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, in Sarajevo. Princip was a
member of Young Bosnia, a group whose aims included the unification of the
South Slavs and independence from Austria-Hungary. The assassination in
Sarajevo set into motion a series of fast-moving events that escalated into
a full-scale war now called World War I.

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by Thomas Ricks
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/15...ef=sr_1_4/102-3215667-3228953?ie=UTF8&s=books

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
(Hardcover)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...=pd_bbs_3/102-3215667-3228953?ie=UTF8&s=books

The One Percent Doctrine (Hardcover)
by Ron Suskind
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743271092/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-3215667-3228953?ie=UTF8


Is part of that wonderful Lexicon you reference songs like Junvenile's "Back
that Azz up" which was #1 in overall sales for months in my large American
city--a cultural milestone in the epicenter of cultural sophistication?

Here's some of that "American English [that] has added a vast and wonderful
lexicon to the English
Language that "originated in the US."

Back That Azz Up
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/juvenile/backthatazzup.html

CH
 
Yo, it mean some of the best and brightest of our "rich vast lexicon" as
Jonah describes it like the Colredigesque, TS Eliotesque, playuhs who sing

""Back That Azz Up"
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/juvenile/backthatazzup.html

"International Force" are two words for "we don't have a clue what's
happened in the last 60 years" or what would happen to an "International
Force" if the garbage isn't completely incinerated.

CH
 
To be really sure someone from MSFT really receives the feedback (whether it
gets red or gets to the appropriate people is a whole other paradigm send
feedback to

(e-mail address removed)

(e-mail address removed)

These two individuals gush about how hungry MSFT is for feedback from its
customers on their blogs constantly. Let 'em have it.

CH
 
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:37:25 -0400, "Chad Harris"

Chad...............

I like your posts too, very entertaining..

As a student of 20th century history I am well aware of the
consequenses of WWI of which WW2 was a mere continuance and the
creation of problems then re the Middle East and Balkans which have
still not been resolved today. As a Brit myself I have to say that the
USA was not and is not entirely responsible, it is easy to play
"Monday Morning Quarterback" especially with history but every nation
does what it thinks is in its own best interests at the time, within
reason, which is entirely understandable.

OK the US has never been popular in Europe unless handing out large
wads of cash and is detested in the Middle East no matter what it
does, the US is however the best friend of us Brits and if it comes to
the crunch we will always side with the US because we do not do losing
side well except in sports.

And regardless of that a superpower cannot in any circumstances turn
the other cheek on an attack like 9/11, somebody gets hammered and in
the end it does not matter who as long as everybody else plays close
attention.

Its not incompetence at all its trying to do the right thing for the
wrong reasons......in a word OIL.

As for Congress and the Senate, it ain't our fault the Yanks cannot
come up with a Presidential candidate better than Dubya FFS how hard
can that be?, where are Jed Bartlett and Matt Santos? Must be there
somewhere.

Mind you Tony Blair has gone on his holidays and we are now under the
control of Mr John Prescot the Deputy Prime Minister. He makes even
Dubya look intelectual.

8-)

Jonah
Jonah--

I like your posts, but circa August 3, 2006 the USA is not "winning"--it has
ceated a domestic and global Fiasco--and a much more appropriate name is
FIASCOVILLE.

It is hemorrhaging bodies and money and rights as never before. It's
Congress is a total joke.

BTW the guy who heads the Senate Committee that governs IT, computers,
internet law in the US has to have help finding a start button. There are
literal 3 year olds who have far more knowledge of Windows than Ted Stevens.

It is mired in chaos, zero Congressional oversight, financial hemorrhage,
educational crisis, and it is smack dab in the middle east in a civil war it
has helped to structure with a puppet government it controls best described
in these two books:

This will help you undestand what a loser the US is. None of what happened
in 1783 or 1812 is around now. What is around though, are the seeds of what
happened in On June 28, 1914, whenGavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, in Sarajevo. Princip was a
member of Young Bosnia, a group whose aims included the unification of the
South Slavs and independence from Austria-Hungary. The assassination in
Sarajevo set into motion a series of fast-moving events that escalated into
a full-scale war now called World War I.

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by Thomas Ricks
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/15...ef=sr_1_4/102-3215667-3228953?ie=UTF8&s=books

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
(Hardcover)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...=pd_bbs_3/102-3215667-3228953?ie=UTF8&s=books

The One Percent Doctrine (Hardcover)
by Ron Suskind
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743271092/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-3215667-3228953?ie=UTF8


Is part of that wonderful Lexicon you reference songs like Junvenile's "Back
that Azz up" which was #1 in overall sales for months in my large American
city--a cultural milestone in the epicenter of cultural sophistication?

Here's some of that "American English [that] has added a vast and wonderful
lexicon to the English
Language that "originated in the US."

Back That Azz Up
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/juvenile/backthatazzup.html

CH

jonah said:
Yeah but wtf has that got to do with English, you can spell your
version how you like but do not call it English it is not.

You speak American English, call it "American English" and I have no
problem. If you want to dictate how English is spelt argue your case
with Oxford University, American English you can do what you like
with I suppose Websters is the US authority?.

American English has added a vast and wonderful lexicon to the English
Language without which English would be much poorer so thanks for
that. But you only dictate spelling if the word originated in the US.

8-)

Jonah
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